From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , stable@vger.kernel.org, Bob Peterson , Steven Whitehouse Subject: [ 059/150] GFS2: Get a block reservation before resizing a file Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2013 15:55:16 -0800 Message-Id: <20130226235530.320276785@linuxfoundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20130226235523.930663721@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20130226235523.930663721@linuxfoundation.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 3.8-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Bob Peterson commit d2b47cfb26fe06002b8011707baac71a9ae8166f upstream. This patch allocates a block reservation structure before growing or shrinking a file. Without this structure, the grow or shink code can reference the bad pointer. Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- fs/gfs2/bmap.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) --- a/fs/gfs2/bmap.c +++ b/fs/gfs2/bmap.c @@ -1286,6 +1286,10 @@ int gfs2_setattr_size(struct inode *inod inode_dio_wait(inode); + ret = gfs2_rs_alloc(GFS2_I(inode)); + if (ret) + return ret; + oldsize = inode->i_size; if (newsize >= oldsize) return do_grow(inode, newsize);