From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Gao Xiang <hsiangkao@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org, yuchao0@huawei.com
Subject: Re: FAILED: patch "[PATCH] erofs: fix extended inode could cross boundary" failed to apply to 4.19-stable tree
Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2021 10:52:22 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YIUtxiWzOjRzsDHm@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200818025546.GA6339@xiangao.remote.csb>
On Tue, Aug 18, 2020 at 10:55:46AM +0800, Gao Xiang wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 17, 2020 at 02:38:46PM +0200, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org wrote:
> >
> > The patch below does not apply to the 4.19-stable tree.
> > If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
> > tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
> > id to <stable@vger.kernel.org>.
> >
> > thanks,
> >
> > greg k-h
> >
> > ------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------
> >
> > From 0dcd3c94e02438f4a571690e26f4ee997524102a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> > From: Gao Xiang <hsiangkao@redhat.com>
> > Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2020 01:58:01 +0800
> > Subject: [PATCH] erofs: fix extended inode could cross boundary
> >
> > Each ondisk inode should be aligned with inode slot boundary
> > (32-byte alignment) because of nid calculation formula, so all
> > compact inodes (32 byte) cannot across page boundary. However,
> > extended inode is now 64-byte form, which can across page boundary
> > in principle if the location is specified on purpose, although
> > it's hard to be generated by mkfs due to the allocation policy
> > and rarely used by Android use case now mainly for > 4GiB files.
> >
> > For now, only two fields `i_ctime_nsec` and `i_nlink' couldn't
> > be read from disk properly and cause out-of-bound memory read
> > with random value.
> >
> > Let's fix now.
> >
> > Fixes: 431339ba9042 ("staging: erofs: add inode operations")
> > Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 4.19+
> > Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200729175801.GA23973@xiangao.remote.csb
> > Reviewed-by: Chao Yu <yuchao0@huawei.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Gao Xiang <hsiangkao@redhat.com>
>
> Yeah, due to code difference, will manually backport this later...
What ever happened to this backport? Did I miss it somewhere?
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-04-25 8:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-08-17 12:38 FAILED: patch "[PATCH] erofs: fix extended inode could cross boundary" failed to apply to 4.19-stable tree gregkh
2020-08-18 2:55 ` Gao Xiang
2021-04-25 8:52 ` Greg KH [this message]
2021-04-25 9:39 ` Gao Xiang
2021-04-25 9:51 ` Greg KH
2021-04-25 10:13 ` Gao Xiang
2021-04-25 10:41 ` Greg KH
2021-04-25 10:55 ` Gao Xiang
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