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 3.4-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-3.4 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
@@ -751,6 +751,8 @@ 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-3.4/ext4-fix-online-resize-with-a-non-standard-blocks-per-group-setting.patch
queue-3.4/ext4-don-t-try-to-modify-s_flags-if-the-the-file-system-is-read-only.patch
queue-3.4/ext4-don-t-leave-i_crtime.tv_sec-uninitialized.patch
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