On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 11:44:44PM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > A user who was using a 8TB+ file system and with a very large flexbg > size (> 65536) could cause the atomic_t used in the struct flex_groups > to overflow. This was detected by PaX security patchset: > > http://forums.grsecurity.net/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=3289&p=12551#p12551 > > Fix this by using an atomic64_t for struct orlav_stats's > free_clusters. > > Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@xxxxxxx> I should note that this bug was apparently introduced by commit 9f24e4208f7e, so it's been around for a while (since 2.6.30). Fortunately it's a pretty rare corner case... - Ted -- 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
