The patch titled
ext3: fix chain verification in ext3_get_blocks()
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
ext3-fix-chain-verification-in-ext3_get_blocks.patch
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Subject: ext3: fix chain verification in ext3_get_blocks()
From: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
Chain verification in ext3_get_blocks() has been hosed since it called
verify_chain(chain, NULL) which always returns success. As a result
readers could in theory race with truncate. On the other hand the race
probably cannot happen with the current locking scheme, since by the time
ext3_truncate() is called all the pages are already removed and hence
get_block() shouldn't be called on such pages...
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
Cc: <linux-ext4@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/ext3/inode.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff -puN fs/ext3/inode.c~ext3-fix-chain-verification-in-ext3_get_blocks fs/ext3/inode.c
--- a/fs/ext3/inode.c~ext3-fix-chain-verification-in-ext3_get_blocks
+++ a/fs/ext3/inode.c
@@ -820,7 +820,7 @@ int ext3_get_blocks_handle(handle_t *han
while (count < maxblocks && count <= blocks_to_boundary) {
ext3_fsblk_t blk;
- if (!verify_chain(chain, partial)) {
+ if (!verify_chain(chain, chain + depth - 1)) {
/*
* Indirect block might be removed by
* truncate while we were reading it.
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from jack@xxxxxxx are
origin.patch
linux-next.patch
ext2-add-blk_issue_flush-to-syncing-paths.patch
ext2-fix-data-corruption-for-racing-writes.patch
ext3-fix-chain-verification-in-ext3_get_blocks.patch
reiser4-update-names-of-quota-methods.patch
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