linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH] ext4: zero out nanosecond timestamps for small inodes

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Date:	Sun, 19 Dec 2010 22:11:30 -0500
From:	Ted Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To:	Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>
Cc:	Jordan Russell <jr-list-2010@....to>, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext4: zero out nanosecond timestamps for small inodes

On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 11:45:48AM -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> As reported by Jordan Russell:
> 
> When nanosecond timestamp resolution isn't supported on an ext4
> partition (inode size = 128), stat() appears to be returning
> uninitialized garbage in the nanosecond component of timestamps.
> 
> EXT4_INODE_GET_XTIME should zero out tv_nsec when EXT4_FITS_IN_INODE
> evaluates to false.
> 
> Reported-by: Jordan Russell <jr-list-2010@....to>
> Signed-of-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>

Thanks, added to the ext4 patch queue.

						- Ted
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