This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ext4: don't leave i_crtime.tv_sec uninitialized to the 3.10-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: ext4-don-t-leave-i_crtime.tv_sec-uninitialized.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.10 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 19ea80603715d473600cd993b9987bc97d042e02 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2014 19:29:32 -0500 Subject: ext4: don't leave i_crtime.tv_sec uninitialized From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> commit 19ea80603715d473600cd993b9987bc97d042e02 upstream. If the i_crtime field is not present in the inode, don't leave the field uninitialized. Fixes: ef7f38359 ("ext4: Add nanosecond timestamps") Reported-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@xxxxxxxxxx> Tested-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/ext4/ext4.h | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) --- a/fs/ext4/ext4.h +++ b/fs/ext4/ext4.h @@ -774,6 +774,8 @@ do { \ if (EXT4_FITS_IN_INODE(raw_inode, einode, xtime)) \ (einode)->xtime.tv_sec = \ (signed)le32_to_cpu((raw_inode)->xtime); \ + else \ + (einode)->xtime.tv_sec = 0; \ if (EXT4_FITS_IN_INODE(raw_inode, einode, xtime ## _extra)) \ ext4_decode_extra_time(&(einode)->xtime, \ raw_inode->xtime ## _extra); \ Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from tytso@xxxxxxx are queue-3.10/ext4-fix-online-resize-with-very-large-inode-tables.patch queue-3.10/ext4-fix-online-resize-with-a-non-standard-blocks-per-group-setting.patch queue-3.10/ext4-don-t-try-to-modify-s_flags-if-the-the-file-system-is-read-only.patch queue-3.10/ext4-fix-error-paths-in-swap_inode_boot_loader.patch queue-3.10/ext4-don-t-leave-i_crtime.tv_sec-uninitialized.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html