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Merge tag 'jfs-4.18' of git://github.com/kleikamp/linux-shaggy

Pull jfs fix from Dave Kleikamp:
 "This fixes a too-small allocation in the xattr code"

* tag 'jfs-4.18' of git://github.com/kleikamp/linux-shaggy:
  jfs: Fix inconsistency between memory allocation and ea_buf->max_size
Linus Torvalds 7 years ago
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1 changed files with 6 additions and 4 deletions
  1. 6 4
      fs/jfs/xattr.c

+ 6 - 4
fs/jfs/xattr.c

@@ -491,15 +491,17 @@ static int ea_get(struct inode *inode, struct ea_buffer *ea_buf, int min_size)
 	if (size > PSIZE) {
 		/*
 		 * To keep the rest of the code simple.  Allocate a
-		 * contiguous buffer to work with
+		 * contiguous buffer to work with. Make the buffer large
+		 * enough to make use of the whole extent.
 		 */
-		ea_buf->xattr = kmalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
+		ea_buf->max_size = (size + sb->s_blocksize - 1) &
+		    ~(sb->s_blocksize - 1);
+
+		ea_buf->xattr = kmalloc(ea_buf->max_size, GFP_KERNEL);
 		if (ea_buf->xattr == NULL)
 			return -ENOMEM;
 
 		ea_buf->flag = EA_MALLOC;
-		ea_buf->max_size = (size + sb->s_blocksize - 1) &
-		    ~(sb->s_blocksize - 1);
 
 		if (ea_size == 0)
 			return 0;