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From: <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: tytso@mit.edu, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>, <stable-commits@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Patch "ext4: fix fencepost error in lazytime optimization" has been added to the 4.1-stable tree
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2015 17:25:27 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <14382159277315@kroah.com> (raw)


This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    ext4: fix fencepost error in lazytime optimization

to the 4.1-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     ext4-fix-fencepost-error-in-lazytime-optimization.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.1 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From 0f0ff9a9f3fa2ec6f427603fd521d5f3a0b076d1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2015 23:37:46 -0400
Subject: ext4: fix fencepost error in lazytime optimization

From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>

commit 0f0ff9a9f3fa2ec6f427603fd521d5f3a0b076d1 upstream.

Commit 8f4d8558391: "ext4: fix lazytime optimization" was not a
complete fix.  In the case where the inode number is a multiple of 16,
and we could still end up updating an inode with dirty timestamps
written to the wrong inode on disk.  Oops.

This can be easily reproduced by using generic/005 with a file system
with metadata_csum and lazytime enabled.

Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 fs/ext4/inode.c |    7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/fs/ext4/inode.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c
@@ -4360,7 +4360,12 @@ static void ext4_update_other_inodes_tim
 	int inode_size = EXT4_INODE_SIZE(sb);
 
 	oi.orig_ino = orig_ino;
-	ino = (orig_ino & ~(inodes_per_block - 1)) + 1;
+	/*
+	 * Calculate the first inode in the inode table block.  Inode
+	 * numbers are one-based.  That is, the first inode in a block
+	 * (assuming 4k blocks and 256 byte inodes) is (n*16 + 1).
+	 */
+	ino = ((orig_ino - 1) & ~(inodes_per_block - 1)) + 1;
 	for (i = 0; i < inodes_per_block; i++, ino++, buf += inode_size) {
 		if (ino == orig_ino)
 			continue;


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from tytso@mit.edu are

queue-4.1/ext4-correctly-migrate-a-file-with-a-hole-at-the-beginning.patch
queue-4.1/ext4-set-lazytime-on-remount-if-ms_lazytime-is-set-by-mount.patch
queue-4.1/jbd2-fix-ocfs2-corrupt-when-updating-journal-superblock-fails.patch
queue-4.1/ext4-be-more-strict-when-migrating-to-non-extent-based-file.patch
queue-4.1/jbd2-use-gfp_nofs-in-jbd2_cleanup_journal_tail.patch
queue-4.1/ext4-fix-fencepost-error-in-lazytime-optimization.patch
queue-4.1/ext4-replace-open-coded-nofail-allocation-in-ext4_free_blocks.patch
queue-4.1/ext4-don-t-retry-file-block-mapping-on-bigalloc-fs-with-non-extent-file.patch
queue-4.1/bufferhead-add-_gfp-version-for-sb_getblk.patch
queue-4.1/ext4-avoid-deadlocks-in-the-writeback-path-by-using-sb_getblk_gfp.patch
queue-4.1/ext4-call-sync_blockdev-before-invalidate_bdev-in-put_super.patch
queue-4.1/ext4-fix-race-between-truncate-and-__ext4_journalled_writepage.patch
queue-4.1/ext4-fix-reservation-release-on-invalidatepage-for-delalloc-fs.patch

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