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From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/39] libext2fs: zero the EA block buffer before filling
 it
Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2014 11:47:52 -0500
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Cc: Sami Liedes <sami.liedes@iki.fi>, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
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On Sat, Oct 25, 2014 at 01:56:49PM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> When writing an extended attribute (EA) block, it's quite possible
> that the EA formatting code will not write the entire buffer.
> Therefore, we must zero the buffer beforehand to avoid writing random
> heap contents to disk.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
> Reported-by: Sami Liedes <sami.liedes@iki.fi>

Applied, thanks.

					- Ted