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

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Message-Id: <20080514102809.3fc190f0.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Wed, 14 May 2008 10:28:09 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
Cc:	Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@...e.de>,
	Tiger Yang <tiger.yang@...cle.com>,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [stable] [PATCH] ext3/4: fix uninitialized bs in
 ext3/4_xattr_set_handle()

On Wed, 14 May 2008 09:00:36 -0700 Greg KH <greg@...ah.com> wrote:

> On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 12:56:42PM +0200, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote:
> > 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?
> 
> Can someone actually _send_ the patch to stable@...nel.org?  I haven't
> seen it yet :)
> 
> And is it in Linus's tree?  We need to wait until it is there before we
> can add it to -stable.

It's in -mm and I just added the "Cc:stable" tag to it.
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