Re: [PATCH] ext4: Avoid writing unitialized memory to disk in EA inodes

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On Thu, 13 Jun 2024 17:02:34 +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
> If the extended attribute size is not a multiple of block size, the last
> block in the EA inode will have uninitialized tail which will get
> written to disk. We will never expose the data to userspace but still
> this is not a good practice so just zero out the tail of the block as it
> isn't going to cause a noticeable performance overhead.
> 
> 
> [...]

Applied, thanks!

[1/1] ext4: Avoid writing unitialized memory to disk in EA inodes
      commit: 65121eff3e4c8c90f8126debf3c369228691c591

Best regards,
-- 
Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx>




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