On Fri, May 22, 2020 at 08:18:21PM -0700, Sultan Alsawaf wrote: > From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> > > commit dac7a4b4b1f664934e8b713f529b629f67db313c upstream. > > We must lock the xattr block before calculating or verifying the > checksum in order to avoid spurious checksum failures. > > https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=193661 > > Reported-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> > Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Signed-off-by: Sultan Alsawaf <sultan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > --- > Hi, > > I've been experiencing spurious ext4 checksum failures on 4.4 because > this patch is missing (which is quite painful with panic-on-error > enabled). This backport fixes the issue for me. > fs/ext4/xattr.c | 66 ++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------------- > 1 file changed, 32 insertions(+), 34 deletions(-) Now queued up, thanks. greg k-h
