From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:34372 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750914AbdADKGE (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Jan 2017 05:06:04 -0500 Subject: Patch "ext4: fix mballoc breakage with 64k block size" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree To: chandan@linux.vnet.ibm.com, adilger@dilger.ca, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, tytso@mit.edu Cc: , From: Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2017 11:06:00 +0100 Message-ID: <1483524360221243@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ANSI_X3.4-1968 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ext4: fix mballoc breakage with 64k block size to the 4.4-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-mballoc-breakage-with-64k-block-size.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let know about it. >>From 69e43e8cc971a79dd1ee5d4343d8e63f82725123 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Chandan Rajendra Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2016 21:04:37 -0500 Subject: ext4: fix mballoc breakage with 64k block size From: Chandan Rajendra commit 69e43e8cc971a79dd1ee5d4343d8e63f82725123 upstream. 'border' variable is set to a value of 2 times the block size of the underlying filesystem. With 64k block size, the resulting value won't fit into a 16-bit variable. Hence this commit changes the data type of 'border' to 'unsigned int'. Fixes: c9de560ded61f Signed-off-by: Chandan Rajendra Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o Reviewed-by: Andreas Dilger Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- fs/ext4/mballoc.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c +++ b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c @@ -669,7 +669,7 @@ static void ext4_mb_mark_free_simple(str ext4_grpblk_t min; ext4_grpblk_t max; ext4_grpblk_t chunk; - unsigned short border; + unsigned int border; BUG_ON(len > EXT4_CLUSTERS_PER_GROUP(sb)); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from chandan@linux.vnet.ibm.com are queue-4.4/ext4-fix-mballoc-breakage-with-64k-block-size.patch queue-4.4/ext4-fix-stack-memory-corruption-with-64k-block-size.patch