Re: Fwd: [STABLE CHERRYPICK] ext4: avoid modifying checksum fields directly during checksum verification

On Thu, Sep 08, 2016 at 10:21:34AM +0300, Török Edwin wrote:

Hi,

Not sure if this was sent to the right place: stable@kernel.org
doesn't seem to exist, I can't find this message in the ML archives,
or the 4.7.3 changelog.  Could you please include this in 4.7.4, I've
been waiting for this patch to get included ever since 4.7.1...

Yeah, I never saw it.

Will add it to the queue, it's long, might take a release or two to make
it...

Were there any objections from the ext4 maintainers in taking the patch
below?

thanks,

greg k-h

-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: [STABLE CHERRYPICK] ext4: avoid modifying checksum fields directly during checksum verification
Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2016 22:29:55 -0400
From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
To: stable@kernel.org
CC: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, Török Edwin <redacted>

Hi, please cherry pick the following commit into the stable kernels.
The commit landed in 4.8-rc1.  It wasn't marked with a cc:
stable@kernel.org, but it should be backported since it affecting a
number of users who are trying to use ext4's metadata checksum
feature.

Thanks!!

commit b47820edd1634dc1208f9212b7ecfb4230610a23
Author: Daeho Jeong [off-list ref]
Date:   Sun Jul 3 17:51:39 2016 -0400

    ext4: avoid modifying checksum fields directly during checksum verification
    
    We temporally change checksum fields in buffers of some types of
    metadata into '0' for verifying the checksum values. By doing this
    without locking the buffer, some metadata's checksums, which are
    being committed or written back to the storage, could be damaged.
    In our test, several metadata blocks were found with damaged metadata
    checksum value during recovery process. When we only verify the
    checksum value, we have to avoid modifying checksum fields directly.
    
    Signed-off-by: Daeho Jeong [off-list ref]
    Signed-off-by: Youngjin Gil [off-list ref]
    Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o [off-list ref]
    Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong [off-list ref]

						- Ted
						

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