Thread (2 messages) 2 messages, 2 authors, 2017-02-01

Re: [PATCH] ext4: Fix data corruption in data=journal mode

From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Date: 2017-02-01 19:06:57
Also in: stable

On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 01:37:53PM +0100, Jan Kara wrote:
ext4_journalled_write_end() did not propely handle all the cases when
generic_perform_write() did not copy all the data into the target page
and could mark buffers with uninitialized contents as uptodate and dirty
leading to possible data corruption (which would be quickly fixed by
generic_perform_write() retrying the write but still). Fix the problem
by carefully handling the case when the page that is written to is not
uptodate.

CC: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Thanks, applied.

					- Ted
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