Hi Greg, I noticed that you're starting to process patches for the 3.5
stable release.  This is just a quick ping-on-gram to remind you that
I'd really appreciate it if you please cherry pick these two commit
id's:

ef58f69c3c34f6377f1e21d3533c806dbd980ad0
41eb70dde42b2360074a559a6f1fc49860a50179

even though I forgot to mark them with a cc:[email protected].

Many thanks!!

                                                - Ted


On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 01:27:04PM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> From: Tao Ma <[email protected]>
> 
> commit 41eb70dde42b2360074a559a6f1fc49860a50179 upstream.
> 
> In xattr block operation, we use h_refcount to indicate whether the
> xattr block is shared among many inodes. And xattr block csum uses
> s_csum_seed if it is shared and i_csum_seed if it belongs to
> one inode. But this has a problem. So consider the block is shared
> first bewteen inode A and B, and B has some xattr update and CoW
> the xattr block. When it updates the *old* xattr block(because
> of the h_refcount change) and calls ext4_xattr_release_block, we
> has no idea that inode A is the real owner of the *old* xattr
> block and we can't use the i_csum_seed of inode A either in xattr
> block csum calculation. And I don't think we have an easy way to
> find inode A.
> 
> So this patch just removes the tricky i_csum_seed and we now uses
> s_csum_seed every time for the xattr block csum. The corresponding
> patch for the e2fsprogs will be sent in another patch.
> 
> This is spotted by xfstests 117.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tao Ma <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <[email protected]>
> Acked-by: Darrick J. Wong <[email protected]>
> ---
> [ Sorry, I forgot to tag these with [email protected] -- Ted ]
> 
>  fs/ext4/xattr.c | 11 ++++-------
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/ext4/xattr.c b/fs/ext4/xattr.c
> index e56c9ed..2cdb98d 100644
> --- a/fs/ext4/xattr.c
> +++ b/fs/ext4/xattr.c
> @@ -127,19 +127,16 @@ static __le32 ext4_xattr_block_csum(struct inode *inode,
>                                   struct ext4_xattr_header *hdr)
>  {
>       struct ext4_sb_info *sbi = EXT4_SB(inode->i_sb);
> -     struct ext4_inode_info *ei = EXT4_I(inode);
>       __u32 csum, old;
>  
>       old = hdr->h_checksum;
>       hdr->h_checksum = 0;
> -     if (le32_to_cpu(hdr->h_refcount) != 1) {
> -             block_nr = cpu_to_le64(block_nr);
> -             csum = ext4_chksum(sbi, sbi->s_csum_seed, (__u8 *)&block_nr,
> -                                sizeof(block_nr));
> -     } else
> -             csum = ei->i_csum_seed;
> +     block_nr = cpu_to_le64(block_nr);
> +     csum = ext4_chksum(sbi, sbi->s_csum_seed, (__u8 *)&block_nr,
> +                        sizeof(block_nr));
>       csum = ext4_chksum(sbi, csum, (__u8 *)hdr,
>                          EXT4_BLOCK_SIZE(inode->i_sb));
> +
>       hdr->h_checksum = old;
>       return cpu_to_le32(csum);
>  }
> -- 
> 1.7.12.rc0.22.gcdd159b
> 
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