This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
reiserfs: don't preallocate blocks for extended attributes
to the 3.18-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:
reiserfs-don-t-preallocate-blocks-for-extended-attributes.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.18 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 54930dfeb46e978b447af0fb8ab4e181c1bf9d7a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2017 16:35:04 -0400
Subject: reiserfs: don't preallocate blocks for extended attributes
From: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@xxxxxxxx>
commit 54930dfeb46e978b447af0fb8ab4e181c1bf9d7a upstream.
Most extended attributes will fit in a single block. More importantly,
we drop the reference to the inode while holding the transaction open
so the preallocated blocks aren't released. As a result, the inode
may be evicted before it's removed from the transaction's prealloc list
which can cause memory corruption.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@xxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/reiserfs/bitmap.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/fs/reiserfs/bitmap.c
+++ b/fs/reiserfs/bitmap.c
@@ -1136,7 +1136,7 @@ static int determine_prealloc_size(reise
hint->prealloc_size = 0;
if (!hint->formatted_node && hint->preallocate) {
- if (S_ISREG(hint->inode->i_mode)
+ if (S_ISREG(hint->inode->i_mode) && !IS_PRIVATE(hint->inode)
&& hint->inode->i_size >=
REISERFS_SB(hint->th->t_super)->s_alloc_options.
preallocmin * hint->inode->i_sb->s_blocksize)
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from jeffm@xxxxxxxx are
queue-3.18/reiserfs-don-t-preallocate-blocks-for-extended-attributes.patch
queue-3.18/reiserfs-fix-race-in-prealloc-discard.patch