linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH] ext3/4: fix uninitialized bs in ext3/4_xattr_set

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Date:	Wed, 14 May 2008 12:56:42 +0200
From:	Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@...e.de>
To:	Tiger Yang <tiger.yang@...cle.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext3/4: fix uninitialized bs in ext3/4_xattr_set_handle()

On Tuesday 13 May 2008 04:31:04 Tiger Yang wrote:
> 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@...e.de>


Could it please be added to -stable?

Andreas
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