Re: [PATCH] ext3/4: fix uninitialized bs in ext3/4_xattr_set_handle()

[Andreas Gruenbacher]

On Tuesday 13 May 2008 04:31:04 Tiger Yang wrote:
> Hi, Andrew
>
> This situation only happens we format ext3/4 with inode size more than
> 128 and we have put xattr entries both in ibody and block.
> The consequences about this bug is we will lost the xattr block which
> pointed by i_file_acl with all xattr entires in it. We will alloc a new
> xattr block and put that large value entry in it. The old xattr block
> will become orphan block.

The patch looks good, and it obviously fixes the described problem. Thanks!

Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@xxxxxxx>


Could it please be added to -stable?

Andreas
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