Re: [PATCH] ext4: fix the time handling macros when ext4 is using small inodes

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On Tue 18-07-23 13:31:59, Jeff Layton wrote:
> If ext4 is using small on-disk inodes, then it may not be able to store
> fine grained timestamps. It also can't store the i_crtime at all in that
> case since that fully lives in the extended part of the inode.
> 
> 979492850abd got the EXT4_EINODE_{GET,SET}_XTIME macros wrong, and would
> still store the tv_sec field of the i_crtime into the raw_inode, even
> when they were small, corrupting adjacent memory.
> 
> This fixes those macros to skip setting anything in the raw_inode if the
> tv_sec field doesn't fit, and to properly return a {0,0} timestamp when
> the raw_inode doesn't support it.
> 
> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
> Fixes: 979492850abd ("ext4: convert to ctime accessor functions")
> Reported-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx>

I've seen Christian has already folded this fixup so I just want to say:
Thanks for fixing this up while I was away!

								Honza
-- 
Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxxx>
SUSE Labs, CR



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