Re: Patch "ext4: atomically set inode->i_flags in ext4_set_inode_flags()" has been added to the 3.10-stable tree

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On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 07:23:59PM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 03:15:44PM -0700, gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > 
> > This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
> > 
> >     ext4: atomically set inode->i_flags in ext4_set_inode_flags()
> > 
> > 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-atomically-set-inode-i_flags-in-ext4_set_inode_flags.patch
> > and it can be found in the queue-3.10 subdirectory.
> 
> I was going to make a one or two minor changes based on akpm's
> changes, and this change hasn't been merged upstream yet.  The plan
> was for this to go upstream in a few more days, after we finish off
> some last minute testing, and and fixing a bug in an existing patch in
> the ext4 tree that was discovered last week, so if you want to wait a
> week, this patch should be upstream by then (and hopefully sooner).
> 
> OTOH, this is a security fix, and the bug has been reported and
> outstanding for a while, so if you want to push this sooner, that's
> fine.

Yes, I'd prefer to take this as-is, and I'll take any "cleanups" later
when they hit Linus's tree, if they actually matter.

> It should also be noted that a similar bug exists for btrfs and
> several other file systems (although btrfs is probably the most
> important mainstream fs that should get fixed sooner rather than
> later).

That would be good to get fixed as well.

thanks,

greg k-h
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