This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ext4: fix lazytime optimization to the 4.0-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-fix-lazytime-optimization.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.0 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 8f4d855839179f410fa910a26eb81d646d628f26 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 14 May 2015 18:19:01 -0400 Subject: ext4: fix lazytime optimization From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> commit 8f4d855839179f410fa910a26eb81d646d628f26 upstream. We had a fencepost error in the lazytime optimization which means that timestamp would get written to the wrong inode. Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/ext4/inode.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/fs/ext4/inode.c +++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c @@ -4233,7 +4233,7 @@ static void ext4_update_other_inodes_tim int inode_size = EXT4_INODE_SIZE(sb); oi.orig_ino = orig_ino; - ino = orig_ino & ~(inodes_per_block - 1); + ino = (orig_ino & ~(inodes_per_block - 1)) + 1; for (i = 0; i < inodes_per_block; i++, ino++, buf += inode_size) { if (ino == orig_ino) continue; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from tytso@xxxxxxx are queue-4.0/ext4-fix-lazytime-optimization.patch queue-4.0/ext4-check-for-zero-length-extent-explicitly.patch queue-4.0/ext4-fix-null-pointer-dereference-when-journal-restart-fails.patch queue-4.0/jbd2-fix-r_count-overflows-leading-to-buffer-overflow-in-journal-recovery.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