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From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
To: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>,
	cmm@us.ibm.com, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, alex@clusterfs.com,
	adilger@sun.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext4: Fix use of uninitialized data
Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2008 09:23:32 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <48440264.7090000@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080602141719.GA20714@skywalker>

Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 02, 2008 at 08:42:24AM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:

>> so it's fine... but why are we carrying around a field in the sbi to
>> hold a constant that cannot be changed runtime?
> 
> We can tune that via MB_PROC_FOPS(group_prealloc);

MB_PROC_VALUE_WRITE()....

ah, cleverly hidden from cscope with a macro.  :)

Ok, so technically then this could be big enough to overflow fe_len:

        value = simple_strtol(str, NULL, 0);                    \
        if (value <= 0)                                         \
                return -ERANGE;                                 \
        sbi->s_mb_##name = value;                               \


but I guess it's probably not the first thing we need to worry about.

-Eric

  reply	other threads:[~2008-06-02 14:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-05-14 18:47 [PATCH] ext4: printk stack trace on ext4_error, ext4_abort and ext4_warning Aneesh Kumar K.V
2008-05-14 18:47 ` [PATCH] ext4: Fix use of uninitialized data Aneesh Kumar K.V
2008-05-14 18:47   ` [PATCH] ext4: Fix FLEX_BG and uninit group usage Aneesh Kumar K.V
2008-05-14 19:08     ` Jose R. Santos
2008-05-15  4:06       ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2008-05-15 16:32         ` Jose R. Santos
2008-06-02  0:08   ` [PATCH] ext4: Fix use of uninitialized data Theodore Tso
2008-06-02  8:59     ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2008-06-02 10:02     ` Shen Feng
2008-06-02 10:32       ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2008-06-03  0:57         ` Shen Feng
2008-06-03 20:02           ` Andreas Dilger
2008-06-02 13:42     ` Eric Sandeen
2008-06-02 14:17       ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2008-06-02 14:23         ` Eric Sandeen [this message]
2008-05-14 19:07 ` [PATCH] ext4: printk stack trace on ext4_error, ext4_abort and ext4_warning Eric Sandeen
2008-05-14 19:44   ` Theodore Tso
2008-05-15  4:25   ` Aneesh Kumar K.V

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