From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@kernel.org,
stable-review@kernel.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk,
Sunil Mushran <sunil.mushran@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: [patch 41/48] ocfs2: Initialize the cluster were writing to in a non-sparse extend
Date: Sun, 6 Sep 2009 11:17:01 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090906181701.GA24803@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090906083249.GA20761@mail.oracle.com>
On Sun, Sep 06, 2009 at 01:32:50AM -0700, Joel Becker wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 02:00:40PM -0700, Joel Becker wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 01:07:53PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > > 2.6.27-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know.
> > >
> > > ------------------
> > > From: Sunil Mushran <sunil.mushran@oracle.com>
> > >
> > > commit e7432675f8ca868a4af365759a8d4c3779a3d922 upstream.
> > >
> > > In a non-sparse extend, we correctly allocate (and zero) the clusters between
> > > the old_i_size and pos, but we don't zero the portions of the cluster we're
> > > writing to outside of pos<->len.
> > >
> > > It handles clustersize > pagesize and blocksize < pagesize.
> > >
> > > [Cleaned up by Joel Becker.]
> >
> > Greg, et al,
> > Yesterday we found a bug in this patch. The patch still fixes
> > the original problem, but we introduced an error in certain
> > page_mkwrite() corner cases. We have one more validation test and then
> > I'm sending the fix to Linus.
> > So we really want both this commit and the followup fix in
> > -stable. You'll be CC'd when I send Linus the pull request.
>
> Ok, the fix is upstream, commit
> 8379e7c46cc48f51197dd663fc6676f47f2a1e71. It applies on top of this
> patch, and is needed for both stable trees.
Ok, I'll queue it up.
thanks,
greg k-h
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2009-09-04 20:11 ` [patch 00/48] 2.6.27.32-stable review Greg KH
2009-09-04 20:07 ` [patch 01/48] ALSA: hda - Fix MacBookPro 3,1/4,1 quirk with ALC889A Greg KH
2009-09-04 20:07 ` [patch 02/48] clone(): fix race between copy_process() and de_thread() Greg KH
2009-09-04 20:07 ` [patch 03/48] ehea: Fix napi list corruption on ifconfig down Greg KH
2009-09-04 20:07 ` [patch 04/48] sound: pcm_lib: fix unsorted list constraint handling Greg KH
2009-09-04 20:07 ` [patch 05/48] SUNRPC: Fix rpc_task_force_reencode Greg KH
2009-09-04 20:07 ` [patch 06/48] KVM: VMX: Change cs reset state to be a data segment Greg KH
2009-09-04 20:07 ` [patch 07/48] KVM: VMX: Change segment dpl at reset to 3 Greg KH
2009-09-04 20:07 ` [patch 08/48] KVM: Load real mode segments correctly Greg KH
2009-09-04 20:07 ` [patch 09/48] KVM: Allocate guest memory as MAP_PRIVATE, not MAP_SHARED Greg KH
2009-09-04 20:07 ` [patch 10/48] KVM: Dont call get_user_pages(.force = 1) Greg KH
2009-09-04 20:07 ` [patch 11/48] KVM: MMU: Add locking around kvm_mmu_slot_remove_write_access() Greg KH
2009-09-04 20:07 ` [patch 12/48] KVM: MMU: Flush tlbs after clearing write permission when accessing dirty log Greg KH
2009-09-04 20:07 ` [patch 13/48] KVM: MMU: Fix setting the accessed bit on non-speculative sptes Greg KH
2009-09-04 20:07 ` [patch 14/48] KVM: Reduce kvm stack usage in kvm_arch_vm_ioctl() Greg KH
2009-09-06 5:47 ` Pavel Machek
2009-09-06 13:43 ` Dave Hansen
2009-09-04 20:07 ` [patch 15/48] KVM: Reduce stack usage in kvm_vcpu_ioctl() Greg KH
2009-09-04 20:07 ` [patch 16/48] KVM: Reduce stack usage in kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl() Greg KH
2009-09-04 20:07 ` [patch 17/48] KVM: Reduce stack usage in kvm_pv_mmu_op() Greg KH
2009-09-04 20:07 ` [patch 18/48] KVM: add MC5_MISC msr read support Greg KH
2009-09-04 20:07 ` [patch 19/48] KVM: set debug registers after "schedulable" section Greg KH
2009-09-04 20:07 ` [patch 20/48] KVM: MMU: increase per-vcpu rmap cache alloc size Greg KH
2009-09-04 20:07 ` [patch 21/48] KVM: VMX: Set IGMT bit in EPT entry Greg KH
2009-09-04 20:07 ` [patch 22/48] KVM: Dont destroy vcpu in case vcpu_setup fails Greg KH
2009-09-04 20:07 ` [patch 23/48] KVM: VMX: Dont allow uninhibited access to EFER on i386 Greg KH
2009-09-04 20:07 ` [patch 24/48] KVM: SVM: Remove port 80 passthrough Greg KH
2009-09-04 20:07 ` [patch 25/48] KVM: Make EFER reads safe when EFER does not exist Greg KH
2009-09-04 20:07 ` [patch 26/48] KVM: VMX: Handle vmx instruction vmexits Greg KH
2009-09-04 20:07 ` [patch 27/48] KVM: Make paravirt tlb flush also reload the PAE PDPTRs Greg KH
2009-09-04 20:07 ` [patch 28/48] KVM: Fix PDPTR reloading on CR4 writes Greg KH
2009-09-04 20:07 ` [patch 29/48] KVM: MMU: do not free active mmu pages in free_mmu_pages() Greg KH
2009-09-04 20:07 ` [patch 30/48] KVM: Fix dirty bit tracking for slots with large pages Greg KH
2009-09-04 20:07 ` [patch 31/48] KVM: x86: check for cr3 validity in mmu_alloc_roots Greg KH
2009-09-04 20:07 ` [patch 32/48] KVM: MMU: protect kvm_mmu_change_mmu_pages with mmu_lock Greg KH
2009-09-04 20:07 ` [patch 33/48] appletalk: fix atalk_getname() leak Greg KH
2009-09-04 20:07 ` [patch 34/48] can: Fix raw_getname() leak Greg KH
2009-09-04 20:07 ` [patch 35/48] do_sigaltstack: avoid copying stack_t as a structure to user space Greg KH
2009-09-04 20:07 ` [patch 36/48] econet: Fix econet_getname() leak Greg KH
2009-09-04 20:07 ` [patch 37/48] irda: Fix irda_getname() leak Greg KH
2009-09-04 20:07 ` [patch 38/48] kthreads: fix kthread_create() vs kthread_stop() race Greg KH
2009-09-04 20:07 ` [patch 39/48] NET: llc, zero sockaddr_llc struct Greg KH
2009-09-04 20:07 ` [patch 40/48] netrom: Fix nr_getname() leak Greg KH
2009-09-04 20:07 ` [patch 41/48] ocfs2: Initialize the cluster were writing to in a non-sparse extend Greg KH
2009-09-04 21:00 ` Joel Becker
2009-09-06 8:32 ` Joel Becker
2009-09-06 18:17 ` Greg KH [this message]
2009-09-04 20:07 ` [patch 42/48] rose: Fix rose_getname() leak Greg KH
2009-09-04 20:07 ` [patch 43/48] ALSA: hda - Add missing vmaster initialization for ALC269 Greg KH
2009-09-04 20:07 ` [patch 44/48] parport: quickfix the proc registration bug Greg KH
2009-09-04 20:07 ` [patch 45/48] USB: removal of tty->low_latency hack dating back to the old serial code Greg KH
2009-09-04 20:07 ` [patch 46/48] Remove low_latency flag setting from nozomi and mxser drivers Greg KH
2009-09-04 20:07 ` [patch 47/48] SCSI: sr: report more accurate drive status after closing the tray Greg KH
2009-09-04 20:08 ` [patch 48/48] SUNRPC: Fix tcp reconnection Greg KH
2009-09-06 22:58 ` [patch 00/48] 2.6.27.32-stable review Tilman Schmidt
2009-09-10 22:33 ` Greg KH
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