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Patch "ext4: fix mballoc breakage with 64k block size" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

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This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

ext4: fix mballoc breakage with 64k block size

to the 4.9-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-mballoc-breakage-with-64k-block-size.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 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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From 69e43e8cc971a79dd1ee5d4343d8e63f82725123 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: Chandan Rajendra <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2016 21:04:37 -0500
Subject: ext4: fix mballoc breakage with 64k block size

From: Chandan Rajendra <[email protected]>

commit 69e43e8cc971a79dd1ee5d4343d8e63f82725123 upstream.

'border' variable is set to a value of 2 times the block size of the underlying filesystem. With 64k block size, the resulting value won't fit into a 16-bit variable. Hence this commit changes the data type of 'border' to 'unsigned int'.

---
 fs/ext4/mballoc.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
fs/ext4/mballoc.c +1 -1
@@ -669,7 +669,7 @@ static void ext4_mb_mark_free_simple(str
 	ext4_grpblk_t min;
 	ext4_grpblk_t max;
 	ext4_grpblk_t chunk;
-	unsigned short border;
+	unsigned int border;
 
 	BUG_ON(len > EXT4_CLUSTERS_PER_GROUP(sb));
 

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.9/ext4-fix-mballoc-breakage-with-64k-block-size.patch queue-4.9/ext4-fix-stack-memory-corruption-with-64k-block-size.patch