This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
ext4: fix endianness breakage in ext4_split_extent_at()
to the 3.0-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-endianness-breakage-in-ext4_split_extent_at.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.0 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.
>From af1584f570b19b0285e4402a0b54731495d31784 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Al Viro <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2012 20:32:25 -0400
Subject: ext4: fix endianness breakage in ext4_split_extent_at()
From: Al Viro <[email protected]>
commit af1584f570b19b0285e4402a0b54731495d31784 upstream.
->ee_len is __le16, so assigning cpu_to_le32() to it is going to do
Bad Things(tm) on big-endian hosts...
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <[email protected]>
Cc: Ted Ts'o <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
fs/ext4/extents.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/fs/ext4/extents.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/extents.c
@@ -2846,7 +2846,7 @@ static int ext4_split_extent_at(handle_t
if (err)
goto fix_extent_len;
/* update the extent length and mark as initialized */
- ex->ee_len = cpu_to_le32(ee_len);
+ ex->ee_len = cpu_to_le16(ee_len);
ext4_ext_try_to_merge(inode, path, ex);
err = ext4_ext_dirty(handle, inode, path + depth);
goto out;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected]
are
queue-3.0/ext4-fix-endianness-breakage-in-ext4_split_extent_at.patch
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