Re: [PATCH] ext3/4: fix uninitialized bs in ext3/4_xattr_set_handle()

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To: Tiger Yang <tiger.yang@...>

Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...>, <linux-ext4@...>, <linux-fsdevel@...>, <linux-kernel@...>, <stable@...>

Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext3/4: fix uninitialized bs in ext3/4_xattr_set_handle()

Date: Wednesday, May 14, 2008 - 6:56 am

On Tuesday 13 May 2008 04:31:04 Tiger Yang wrote:
quoted text> Hi, Andrew
>
> This situation only happens we format ext3/4 with inode size more than
> 128 and we have put xattr entries both in ibody and block.
> The consequences about this bug is we will lost the xattr block which
> pointed by i_file_acl with all xattr entires in it. We will alloc a new
> xattr block and put that large value entry in it. The old xattr block
> will become orphan block.

The patch looks good, and it obviously fixes the described problem. Thanks!

Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>


Could it please be added to -stable?

Andreas
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[PATCH] ext3/4: fix uninitialized bs in ext3/4_xattr_set_han..., Tiger Yang, (Sun May 11, 11:24 pm)

Re: [PATCH] ext3/4: fix uninitialized bs in ext3/4_xattr_set..., Eric Sandeen, (Mon May 12, 8:18 pm)

Re: [PATCH] ext3/4: fix uninitialized bs in ext3/4_xattr_set..., Kalpak Shah, (Tue May 13, 4:48 am)

Re: [PATCH] ext3/4: fix uninitialized bs in ext3/4_xattr_set..., Tiger Yang, (Tue May 13, 3:48 am)

Re: [PATCH] ext3/4: fix uninitialized bs in ext3/4_xattr_set..., Eric Sandeen, (Tue May 13, 8:48 am)

Re: [PATCH] ext3/4: fix uninitialized bs in ext3/4_xattr_set..., Andrew Morton, (Mon May 12, 8:02 pm)

Re: [PATCH] ext3/4: fix uninitialized bs in ext3/4_xattr_set..., Tiger Yang, (Mon May 12, 10:31 pm)

Re: [PATCH] ext3/4: fix uninitialized bs in ext3/4_xattr_set..., Andreas Gruenbacher, (Wed May 14, 6:56 am)

Re: [stable] [PATCH] ext3/4: fix uninitialized bs in ext3/4_..., Greg KH, (Wed May 14, 12:00 pm)

Re: [stable] [PATCH] ext3/4: fix uninitialized bs in ext3/4_..., Andrew Morton, (Wed May 14, 1:28 pm)

Re: [stable] [PATCH] ext3/4: fix uninitialized bs in ext3/4_..., Theodore Tso, (Wed May 14, 6:30 pm)

Re: [stable] [PATCH] ext3/4: fix uninitialized bs in ext3/4_..., Andrew Morton, (Wed May 14, 6:54 pm)

Re: [PATCH] ext3/4: fix uninitialized bs in ext3/4_xattr_set..., Andreas Dilger, (Tue May 13, 4:00 pm)


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