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From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
To: Tiger Yang <tiger.yang@oracle.com>
Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext3/4: fix uninitialized bs in ext3/4_xattr_set_handle()
Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 19:18:59 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4828DE73.2070001@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4827B878.50903@oracle.com>

Tiger Yang wrote:
> Hi,
> I met a bug when I try to replace a xattr entry in ibody with a big size 
> value. But in ibody there has no space for the new value. So it should 
> set new xattr entry in block and remove the old xattr entry in ibody.
> 
> Best regards,
> tiger
> 

Tiger, do you have a testcase handy to demonstrate this?

Is the new, large out-of-inode xattr unique so that it does not match
any existing attribute block, I assume?

Thanks,

-Eric

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-05-13  0:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-05-12  3:24 [PATCH] ext3/4: fix uninitialized bs in ext3/4_xattr_set_handle() Tiger Yang
2008-05-13  0:02 ` Andrew Morton
2008-05-13  2:31   ` Tiger Yang
2008-05-13 20:00     ` Andreas Dilger
2008-05-14 10:56     ` Andreas Gruenbacher
2008-05-14 16:00       ` [stable] " Greg KH
2008-05-14 17:28         ` Andrew Morton
2008-05-14 22:30           ` Theodore Tso
2008-05-14 22:54             ` Andrew Morton
2008-05-13  0:18 ` Eric Sandeen [this message]
2008-05-13  7:48   ` Tiger Yang
2008-05-13 12:48     ` Eric Sandeen
2008-05-13  8:48   ` Kalpak Shah

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