From: "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Vasily Averin <vvs@virtuozzo.com>
Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org,
Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@dilger.ca>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] ext4: missing !bh check in ext4_xattr_inode_write()
Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2018 11:42:42 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181109164242.GA21078@thunk.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <55574e0e-01a9-3cad-34ab-251e340fb78e@virtuozzo.com>
On Fri, Nov 09, 2018 at 08:49:48AM +0300, Vasily Averin wrote:
> According to Ted Ts'o ext4_getblk() called in ext4_xattr_inode_write()
> should not return bh = NULL
>
> The only time that bh could be NULL, then, would be in the case of
> something really going wrong; a programming error elsewhere (perhaps a
> wild pointer dereference) or I/O error causing on-disk file system
> corruption (although that would be highly unlikely given that we had
> *just* allocated the blocks and so the metadata blocks in question
> probably would still be in the cache).
>
> Fixes e50e5129f384 ("ext4: xattr-in-inode support")
> Cc: stable@kernel.org # 4.13
>
> Signed-off-by: Vasily Averin <vvs@virtuozzo.com>
Thanks, applied.
- Ted
prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-11-10 2:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-11-04 17:29 [PATCH] ext4: missing !bh check in ext4_xattr_inode_write() Vasily Averin
2018-11-07 16:33 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2018-11-08 6:46 ` [PATCH v2] " Vasily Averin
2018-11-08 14:54 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2018-11-09 5:49 ` [PATCH v3] " Vasily Averin
2018-11-09 16:42 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o [this message]
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