linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH] ext4: avoid clearing beyond i_blocks when truncating an inline data file

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Message-ID: <20140107175839.GF2822@thunk.org>
Date:	Tue, 7 Jan 2014 12:58:39 -0500
From:	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To:	Ext4 Developers List <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:	stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext4: avoid clearing beyond i_blocks when truncating an
 inline data file

On Tue, Jan 07, 2014 at 12:57:17PM -0500, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> A missing cast means that when we are truncating a file which is less
> than 60 bytes, we don't trunate the wrong area of memory, and in fact
> we can end up truncating the next inode in the inode table, or worse
> yet, some other kernel data structure.

s/trunate the wrong/clear the correct/

						- Ted
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