Patch "ext4: fix lazytime optimization" has been added to the 4.0-stable tree
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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 <[email protected]> know about it.
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8f4d855839179f410fa910a26eb81d646d628f26Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Theodore Ts'o <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 14 May 2015 18:19:01 -0400
Subject: ext4: fix lazytime optimization
From: Theodore Ts'o <[email protected]>
commit 8f4d855839179f410fa910a26eb81d646d628f26 upstream.
We had a fencepost error in the lazytime optimization which means that timestamp would get written to the wrong inode.
--- fs/ext4/inode.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
fs/ext4/inode.c +1 -1
@@ -4233,7 +4233,7 @@ static void ext4_update_other_inodes_timint 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 [email protected] 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