linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH] e2fsprogs: Offsets of EAs in inode need not be sorted

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Date:	Sat, 21 Apr 2007 00:47:51 +0530
From:	Kalpak Shah <kalpak@...sterfs.com>
To:	Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>
Cc:	linux-ext4 <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] e2fsprogs: Offsets of EAs in inode need not be sorted

On Fri, 2007-04-20 at 10:10 -0400, Theodore Tso wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 06:35:41PM +0530, Kalpak Shah wrote:
> > 
> > I saw this problem when I was running a script which created a random
> > number of EAs for a file of random sizes. If you mount the image I have
> > given, all the EAs are displayed and they can be used/modified/deleted
> > without any problems so its not a bug in ext3 code.
> 
> Not a bug in the ext3 code, but if a RHEL5 or SLES 10 or Debian etch
> user uses EA-in-Inode, with SELinux enabled, and then uses the e2fsck
> shipped with their distro, some of the unsorted EA's would get
> deleted.... right?  

Yes thats what I meant, it is certainly not a bug in ext3. And actually
the effects are worse, _all_ the EAs in the inode get deleted. I think
not many people have been using > 128 byte inodes and hence this problem
might not have cropped up until now.

Thanks,
Kalpak Shah.
<kalpak@...sterfs.com>

> 
> If that's correct, then that's a pretty nasty data corruption problem
> (that with SELinux enabled could cause the system to become completely
> non-functional, further contributing to SELinux's bad reputation...)
> and we'll need to push your patch to the various distro's as a
> relatively high priority bug fix.
> 
> 						- Ted

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