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From: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>,
	linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 08/11] ext4: Fix end of group handling in ext4_mb_init_cache
Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2013 08:45:41 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131001124541.GB2097@thunk.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1380572952-30729-9-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org>

On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 01:29:09PM -0700, Andi Kleen wrote:
> From: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
> 
> The first loop in ext4_mb_init_cache can bail out when the end of
> all groups is reached. Unfortunately the later loops did not
> have that check and could access uninitialized buffer pointers
> in bh[]. Add the end of group check everywhere.
> 
> Cc: tytso@mit.edu
> Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
> ---
>  Makefile          | 6 +++---
>  fs/ext4/mballoc.c | 6 +++++-
>  2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
> index 8d0668f..be3ef83 100644
> --- a/Makefile
> +++ b/Makefile
> @@ -663,9 +663,9 @@ KBUILD_CFLAGS   += $(call cc-option,-fconserve-stack)
>  KBUILD_ARFLAGS := $(call ar-option,D)
>  
>  # check for 'asm goto'
> -ifeq ($(shell $(CONFIG_SHELL) $(srctree)/scripts/gcc-goto.sh $(CC)), y)
> -	KBUILD_CFLAGS += -DCC_HAVE_ASM_GOTO
> -endif
> +#ifeq ($(shell $(CONFIG_SHELL) $(srctree)/scripts/gcc-goto.sh $(CC)), y)
> +#	KBUILD_CFLAGS += -DCC_HAVE_ASM_GOTO
> +#endif
>  
>  # Add user supplied CPPFLAGS, AFLAGS and CFLAGS as the last assignments
>  KBUILD_CPPFLAGS += $(KCPPFLAGS)

What's this change all about, and why is it included in this
patch?

						- Ted

  reply	other threads:[~2013-10-01 12:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-09-30 20:29 Various static checker fixes Andi Kleen
2013-09-30 20:29 ` [PATCH 01/11] random: don't feed stack data into pool when interrupt regs NULL Andi Kleen
2013-09-30 20:51   ` Luck, Tony
2013-10-01 12:44     ` Theodore Ts'o
2014-04-04 16:54       ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2014-04-07  4:01         ` Theodore Ts'o
2014-04-07 19:30           ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2014-04-07 23:26             ` Theodore Ts'o
2014-04-09 18:14             ` rkuo
2013-09-30 20:29 ` [PATCH 02/11] Disable initialized_var for clang Andi Kleen
2013-09-30 20:29 ` [PATCH 03/11] posix-timers: Initialize timer value to 0 for invalid timers Andi Kleen
2013-09-30 20:29 ` [PATCH 04/11] block: Return error code of elevator init function Andi Kleen
2013-10-01 12:25   ` Jeff Moyer
2013-09-30 20:29 ` [PATCH 05/11] seq_file: Handle ->next error in seq_read Andi Kleen
2013-09-30 20:29 ` [PATCH 06/11] sysctl: remove unnecessary variable initialization Andi Kleen
2013-09-30 20:29 ` [PATCH 07/11] igb: Avoid uninitialized advertised variable in eee_set_cur Andi Kleen
2013-10-01 15:00   ` Wyborny, Carolyn
2013-10-01 23:10   ` Jeff Kirsher
2013-10-02 20:33   ` David Miller
2013-09-30 20:29 ` [PATCH 08/11] ext4: Fix end of group handling in ext4_mb_init_cache Andi Kleen
2013-10-01 12:45   ` Theodore Ts'o [this message]
2013-10-01 14:20     ` Andi Kleen
2013-09-30 20:29 ` [PATCH 09/11] epoll: Remove unnecessary error path Andi Kleen
2013-09-30 20:59   ` Eric Wong
2013-09-30 21:01     ` Andi Kleen
2013-09-30 20:29 ` [PATCH 10/11] tcp: Always set options to 0 before calling tcp_established_options Andi Kleen
2013-10-02 20:33   ` David Miller
2013-09-30 20:29 ` [PATCH 11/11] perf: Avoid uninitialized sample type reference in __perf_event__output_id_sample Andi Kleen
2013-10-02  8:57   ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-10-02 17:25     ` Andi Kleen
2013-10-02 17:36       ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-10-03  6:42         ` Ingo Molnar
2013-10-03 18:16           ` Andi Kleen
2013-10-04  6:24             ` Ingo Molnar

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