Re: [PATCH v3 1/1] vfs: iversion truncate bug fix

From: Mimi Zohar
Date: Wed Jan 04 2012 - 19:36:44 EST


On Wed, 2012-01-04 at 15:28 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Dec 2011 08:26:30 -0500
> Mimi Zohar <zohar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 2011-12-22 at 12:54 +0200, Dmitry Kasatkin wrote:
> > > When a file is truncated with truncate()/ftruncate() and then closed,
> > > iversion is not updated. This patch uses ATTR_SIZE flag as an indication
> > > to increment iversion.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Dmitry Kasatkin <dmitry.kasatkin@xxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Acked-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > (Stable should be cc'ed on this patch.)
>
> why?

Why backported? The IMA measurement list could be incomplete.

Mimi

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