This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
ubifs: Fix xattr_names length in exit paths
to the 4.8-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
ubifs-fix-xattr_names-length-in-exit-paths.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.8 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 843741c5778398ea67055067f4cc65ae6c80ca0e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Richard Weinberger <richard@xxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2016 10:08:30 +0200
Subject: ubifs: Fix xattr_names length in exit paths
From: Richard Weinberger <richard@xxxxxx>
commit 843741c5778398ea67055067f4cc65ae6c80ca0e upstream.
When the operation fails we also have to undo the changes
we made to ->xattr_names. Otherwise listxattr() will report
wrong lengths.
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@xxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/ubifs/xattr.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
--- a/fs/ubifs/xattr.c
+++ b/fs/ubifs/xattr.c
@@ -172,6 +172,7 @@ out_cancel:
host_ui->xattr_cnt -= 1;
host_ui->xattr_size -= CALC_DENT_SIZE(nm->len);
host_ui->xattr_size -= CALC_XATTR_BYTES(size);
+ host_ui->xattr_names -= nm->len;
mutex_unlock(&host_ui->ui_mutex);
out_free:
make_bad_inode(inode);
@@ -476,6 +477,7 @@ out_cancel:
host_ui->xattr_cnt += 1;
host_ui->xattr_size += CALC_DENT_SIZE(nm->len);
host_ui->xattr_size += CALC_XATTR_BYTES(ui->data_len);
+ host_ui->xattr_names += nm->len;
mutex_unlock(&host_ui->ui_mutex);
ubifs_release_budget(c, &req);
make_bad_inode(inode);
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from richard@xxxxxx are
queue-4.8/ubifs-abort-readdir-upon-error.patch
queue-4.8/ubi-deal-with-interrupted-erasures-in-wl.patch
queue-4.8/fscrypto-lock-inode-while-setting-encryption-policy.patch
queue-4.8/ubifs-fix-xattr_names-length-in-exit-paths.patch
queue-4.8/ovl-fix-info-leak-in-ovl_lookup_temp.patch
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