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On 01/26/13 16:40, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> This is a merge-to-userspace of kernel commit a0041684
> xfs: zero allocation_args on the kernel stack
>
> When calling xfs_alloc_vextent args.userdata was uninitialized,
> and if we had args.type==XFS_ALLOCTYPE_START_BNO, this uninit
> structure member got tested, leading to some random allocator
> behavior.
>
> Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen<sandeen@redhat.com>
> ---

I remember seeing this in Dave's:

	[UBER-PATCH, RFC] xfsprogs: sync libxfs to 3.8-rc2 kernel code

http://patchwork.xfs.org/patch/4683/

--Mark.

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