linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH 05/19] libext2fs: check EA block headers when reading in the block

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Date:	Sat, 2 Aug 2014 22:33:08 -0400
From:	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To:	"Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@...cle.com>
Cc:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 05/19] libext2fs: check EA block headers when reading in
 the block

On Fri, Aug 01, 2014 at 11:12:14AM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> From: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@...cle.com>
> 
> When reading an EA block in from disk, do a quick sanity check of the
> block header, and return an error if we think we have garbage.  Teach
> e2fsck to ignore the new error code in favor of doing its own
> checking, and remove the strict_csums bits while we're at it.
> 
> (Also document some assumptions in the new ext_attr code.)
> 
> Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@...cle.com>

Applied, thanks.

					- Ted
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