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From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
To: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: "yebin (H)" <yebin10@huawei.com>, Ye Bin <yebin@huaweicloud.com>,
	tytso@mit.edu, adilger.kernel@dilger.ca,
	linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	syzbot+4d99a966fd74bdeeec36@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext4: fix WARNING in ext4_expand_extra_isize_ea
Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2022 10:43:47 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Y4j142NC7u0O8VHt@sol.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20221201142143.yuxnld55qot4jv7b@quack3>

On Thu, Dec 01, 2022 at 03:21:43PM +0100, Jan Kara wrote:
> You're right that VFS actually limits xattr size to 64k. So the chances
> that someone actually has filesystem with larger xattrs are slim. But I
> know that Lustre guys run with their modified kernels and they were the
> ones implementing ea_inode feature so maybe they'd bumped the VFS limit as
> well in their kernels.

Upstream has 64K, so that's all that matters in the context of upstream.  If
someone changed it downstream, that's their problem.

- Eric

      parent reply	other threads:[~2022-12-01 18:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-12-01  8:48 [PATCH] ext4: fix WARNING in ext4_expand_extra_isize_ea Ye Bin
2022-12-01 12:19 ` Jan Kara
2022-12-01 13:25   ` yebin (H)
2022-12-01 14:21     ` Jan Kara
2022-12-01 15:56       ` Theodore Ts'o
2022-12-01 18:43       ` Eric Biggers [this message]

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