Re: [stable] [PATCH] ext3/4: fix uninitialized bs inext3/4_xattr_set_handle()

[Greg KH]

On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 12:56:42PM +0200, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote:
> 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?

Can someone actually _send_ the patch to stable@xxxxxxxxxx?  I haven't
seen it yet :)

And is it in Linus's tree?  We need to wait until it is there before we
can add it to -stable.

thanks,

greg k-h
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