This is a note to let you know that we have just queued up the patch titled Subject: ext3/4: fix uninitialized bs in ext3/4_xattr_set_handle() to the 2.6.25-stable tree. Its filename is ext3-4-fix-uninitialized-bs-in-ext3-4_xattr_set_handle.patch A git repo of this tree can be found at http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary >From stable-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Wed May 14 19:45:26 2008 From: Tiger Yang <tiger.yang@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 02:45:18 GMT Subject: ext3/4: fix uninitialized bs in ext3/4_xattr_set_handle() To: jejb@xxxxxxxxxx, stable@xxxxxxxxxx Message-ID: <200805150245.m4F2jI8E020348@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> From: Tiger Yang <tiger.yang@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 7e01c8e5420b6c7f9d85d34c15d8c7a15c9fc720 upstream This fix the uninitialized bs when we try to replace a xattr entry in ibody with the new value which require more than free space. 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. Signed-off-by: Tiger Yang <tiger.yang@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: <linux-ext4@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@xxxxxxx> Acked-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxx> --- fs/ext3/xattr.c | 5 +++++ fs/ext4/xattr.c | 5 +++++ 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+) --- a/fs/ext3/xattr.c +++ b/fs/ext3/xattr.c @@ -1000,6 +1000,11 @@ ext3_xattr_set_handle(handle_t *handle, i.value = NULL; error = ext3_xattr_block_set(handle, inode, &i, &bs); } else if (error == -ENOSPC) { + if (EXT3_I(inode)->i_file_acl && !bs.s.base) { + error = ext3_xattr_block_find(inode, &i, &bs); + if (error) + goto cleanup; + } error = ext3_xattr_block_set(handle, inode, &i, &bs); if (error) goto cleanup; --- a/fs/ext4/xattr.c +++ b/fs/ext4/xattr.c @@ -1011,6 +1011,11 @@ ext4_xattr_set_handle(handle_t *handle, i.value = NULL; error = ext4_xattr_block_set(handle, inode, &i, &bs); } else if (error == -ENOSPC) { + if (EXT4_I(inode)->i_file_acl && !bs.s.base) { + error = ext4_xattr_block_find(inode, &i, &bs); + if (error) + goto cleanup; + } error = ext4_xattr_block_set(handle, inode, &i, &bs); if (error) goto cleanup; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from tiger.yang@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-2.6.25/ext3-4-fix-uninitialized-bs-in-ext3-4_xattr_set_handle.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html