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<title>linux-toradex.git/fs, branch v2.6.27.19</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>ext4: Initialize the new group descriptor when resizing the filesystem</title>
<updated>2009-02-20T22:37:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Theodore Ts'o</name>
<email>tytso@mit.edu</email>
</author>
<published>2009-02-17T15:58:44+00:00</published>
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(cherry picked from commit fdff73f094e7220602cc3f8959c7230517976412)

Make sure all of the fields of the group descriptor are properly
initialized.  Previously, we allowed bg_flags field to be contain
random garbage, which could trigger non-deterministic behavior,
including a kernel OOPS.

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12433

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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(cherry picked from commit fdff73f094e7220602cc3f8959c7230517976412)

Make sure all of the fields of the group descriptor are properly
initialized.  Previously, we allowed bg_flags field to be contain
random garbage, which could trigger non-deterministic behavior,
including a kernel OOPS.

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12433

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ext4: Add sanity check to make_indexed_dir</title>
<updated>2009-02-20T22:37:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Theodore Ts'o</name>
<email>tytso@mit.edu</email>
</author>
<published>2009-02-17T15:58:42+00:00</published>
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(cherry picked from commit e6b8bc09ba2075cd91fbffefcd2778b1a00bd76f)

Make sure the rec_len field in the '..' entry is sane, lest we overrun
the directory block and cause a kernel oops on a purposefully
corrupted filesystem.

Thanks to Sami Liedes for reporting this bug.

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12430

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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(cherry picked from commit e6b8bc09ba2075cd91fbffefcd2778b1a00bd76f)

Make sure the rec_len field in the '..' entry is sane, lest we overrun
the directory block and cause a kernel oops on a purposefully
corrupted filesystem.

Thanks to Sami Liedes for reporting this bug.

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12430

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ext4: only use i_size_high for regular files</title>
<updated>2009-02-20T22:37:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Theodore Ts'o</name>
<email>tytso@mit.edu</email>
</author>
<published>2009-02-17T15:58:41+00:00</published>
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(cherry picked from commit 06a279d636734da32bb62dd2f7b0ade666f65d7c)

Directories are not allowed to be bigger than 2GB, so don't use
i_size_high for anything other than regular files.  E2fsck should
complain about these inodes, but the simplest thing to do for the
kernel is to only use i_size_high for regular files.

This prevents an intentially corrupted filesystem from causing the
kernel to burn a huge amount of CPU and issuing error messages such
as:

EXT4-fs warning (device loop0): ext4_block_to_path: block 135090028 &gt; max

Thanks to David Maciejak from Fortinet's FortiGuard Global Security
Research Team for reporting this issue.

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12375

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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(cherry picked from commit 06a279d636734da32bb62dd2f7b0ade666f65d7c)

Directories are not allowed to be bigger than 2GB, so don't use
i_size_high for anything other than regular files.  E2fsck should
complain about these inodes, but the simplest thing to do for the
kernel is to only use i_size_high for regular files.

This prevents an intentially corrupted filesystem from causing the
kernel to burn a huge amount of CPU and issuing error messages such
as:

EXT4-fs warning (device loop0): ext4_block_to_path: block 135090028 &gt; max

Thanks to David Maciejak from Fortinet's FortiGuard Global Security
Research Team for reporting this issue.

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12375

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ext4: Add sanity checks for the superblock before mounting the filesystem</title>
<updated>2009-02-20T22:37:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Theodore Ts'o</name>
<email>tytso@mit.edu</email>
</author>
<published>2009-02-17T15:58:40+00:00</published>
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(cherry picked from commit 4ec110281379826c5cf6ed14735e47027c3c5765)

This avoids insane superblock configurations that could lead to kernel
oops due to null pointer derefences.

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12371

Thanks to David Maciejak at Fortinet's FortiGuard Global Security
Research Team who discovered this bug independently (but at
approximately the same time) as Thiemo Nagel, who submitted the patch.

Signed-off-by: Thiemo Nagel &lt;thiemo.nagel@ph.tum.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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(cherry picked from commit 4ec110281379826c5cf6ed14735e47027c3c5765)

This avoids insane superblock configurations that could lead to kernel
oops due to null pointer derefences.

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12371

Thanks to David Maciejak at Fortinet's FortiGuard Global Security
Research Team who discovered this bug independently (but at
approximately the same time) as Thiemo Nagel, who submitted the patch.

Signed-off-by: Thiemo Nagel &lt;thiemo.nagel@ph.tum.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ext4: Init the complete page while building buddy cache</title>
<updated>2009-02-20T22:37:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Aneesh Kumar K.V</name>
<email>aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-02-17T15:58:39+00:00</published>
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(cherry picked from commit 29eaf024980e07cc01f31ae4ea5d68c917f4b7da)

We need to init the complete page during buddy cache init
by setting the contents to '1'.  Otherwise we can see the
following errors after doing an online resize of the
filesystem:

EXT4-fs error (device sdb1): ext4_mb_mark_diskspace_used:
	Allocating block 1040385 in system zone of 127 group

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V &lt;aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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(cherry picked from commit 29eaf024980e07cc01f31ae4ea5d68c917f4b7da)

We need to init the complete page during buddy cache init
by setting the contents to '1'.  Otherwise we can see the
following errors after doing an online resize of the
filesystem:

EXT4-fs error (device sdb1): ext4_mb_mark_diskspace_used:
	Allocating block 1040385 in system zone of 127 group

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V &lt;aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ext4: Don't allow new groups to be added during block allocation</title>
<updated>2009-02-20T22:37:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Aneesh Kumar K.V</name>
<email>aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-02-17T15:58:38+00:00</published>
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(cherry picked from commit 8556e8f3b6c4c11601ce1e9ea8090a6d8bd5daae)

After we mark the blocks in the buddy cache as allocated,
we need to ensure that we don't reinit the buddy cache until
the block bitmap is updated.  This commit achieves this by holding
the group_info alloc_semaphore till ext4_mb_release_context

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V &lt;aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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(cherry picked from commit 8556e8f3b6c4c11601ce1e9ea8090a6d8bd5daae)

After we mark the blocks in the buddy cache as allocated,
we need to ensure that we don't reinit the buddy cache until
the block bitmap is updated.  This commit achieves this by holding
the group_info alloc_semaphore till ext4_mb_release_context

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V &lt;aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ext4: mark the blocks/inode bitmap beyond end of group as used</title>
<updated>2009-02-20T22:37:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Aneesh Kumar K.V</name>
<email>aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-02-17T15:58:37+00:00</published>
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(cherry picked from commit 648f5879f5892dddd3ba71cd0d285599f40f2512)

We need to mark the block/inode bitmap beyond the end of the group
with '1'.

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V &lt;aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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(cherry picked from commit 648f5879f5892dddd3ba71cd0d285599f40f2512)

We need to mark the block/inode bitmap beyond the end of the group
with '1'.

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V &lt;aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ext4: Use new buffer_head flag to check uninit group bitmaps initialization</title>
<updated>2009-02-20T22:37:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Aneesh Kumar K.V</name>
<email>aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-02-17T15:58:36+00:00</published>
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(cherry picked from commit 2ccb5fb9f113dae969d1ae9b6c10e80fa34f8cd3)

For uninit block group, the ondisk bitmap is not initialized. That implies
we cannot depend on the uptodate flag on the bitmap buffer_head to
find bitmap validity. Use a new buffer_head flag which would be set after
we properly initialize the bitmap. This also prevent the initializing
the uninit group bitmap initialization every time we do a
ext4_read_block_bitmap.

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V &lt;aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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(cherry picked from commit 2ccb5fb9f113dae969d1ae9b6c10e80fa34f8cd3)

For uninit block group, the ondisk bitmap is not initialized. That implies
we cannot depend on the uptodate flag on the bitmap buffer_head to
find bitmap validity. Use a new buffer_head flag which would be set after
we properly initialize the bitmap. This also prevent the initializing
the uninit group bitmap initialization every time we do a
ext4_read_block_bitmap.

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V &lt;aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ext4: Fix the race between read_inode_bitmap() and ext4_new_inode()</title>
<updated>2009-02-20T22:37:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Aneesh Kumar K.V</name>
<email>aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-02-17T15:58:34+00:00</published>
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(cherry picked from commit 393418676a7602e1d7d3f6e560159c65c8cbd50e)

We need to make sure we update the inode bitmap and clear
EXT4_BG_INODE_UNINIT flag with sb_bgl_lock held, since
ext4_read_inode_bitmap() looks at EXT4_BG_INODE_UNINIT to decide
whether to initialize the inode bitmap each time it is called.
(introduced by commit c806e68f.)

ext4_read_inode_bitmap does:

spin_lock(sb_bgl_lock(EXT4_SB(sb), block_group));
if (desc-&gt;bg_flags &amp; cpu_to_le16(EXT4_BG_INODE_UNINIT)) {
	ext4_init_inode_bitmap(sb, bh, block_group, desc);

and ext4_new_inode does
if (!ext4_set_bit_atomic(sb_bgl_lock(sbi, group),
                   ino, inode_bitmap_bh-&gt;b_data))
		   ......
		   ...
spin_lock(sb_bgl_lock(sbi, group));

gdp-&gt;bg_flags &amp;= cpu_to_le16(~EXT4_BG_INODE_UNINIT);
i.e., on allocation we update the bitmap then we take the sb_bgl_lock
and clear the EXT4_BG_INODE_UNINIT flag. What can happen is a
parallel ext4_read_inode_bitmap can zero out the bitmap in between
the above ext4_set_bit_atomic and spin_lock(sb_bg_lock..)

The race results in below user visible errors
EXT4-fs error (device sdb1): ext4_free_inode: bit already cleared for inode 168449
EXT4-fs warning (device sdb1): ext4_unlink: Deleting nonexistent file ...
EXT4-fs warning (device sdb1): ext4_rmdir: empty directory has too many links ...
ls: /mnt/tmp/f/p369/d3/d6/d39/db2/dee/d10f/d3f/l71: Stale NFS file handle

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V &lt;aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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(cherry picked from commit 393418676a7602e1d7d3f6e560159c65c8cbd50e)

We need to make sure we update the inode bitmap and clear
EXT4_BG_INODE_UNINIT flag with sb_bgl_lock held, since
ext4_read_inode_bitmap() looks at EXT4_BG_INODE_UNINIT to decide
whether to initialize the inode bitmap each time it is called.
(introduced by commit c806e68f.)

ext4_read_inode_bitmap does:

spin_lock(sb_bgl_lock(EXT4_SB(sb), block_group));
if (desc-&gt;bg_flags &amp; cpu_to_le16(EXT4_BG_INODE_UNINIT)) {
	ext4_init_inode_bitmap(sb, bh, block_group, desc);

and ext4_new_inode does
if (!ext4_set_bit_atomic(sb_bgl_lock(sbi, group),
                   ino, inode_bitmap_bh-&gt;b_data))
		   ......
		   ...
spin_lock(sb_bgl_lock(sbi, group));

gdp-&gt;bg_flags &amp;= cpu_to_le16(~EXT4_BG_INODE_UNINIT);
i.e., on allocation we update the bitmap then we take the sb_bgl_lock
and clear the EXT4_BG_INODE_UNINIT flag. What can happen is a
parallel ext4_read_inode_bitmap can zero out the bitmap in between
the above ext4_set_bit_atomic and spin_lock(sb_bg_lock..)

The race results in below user visible errors
EXT4-fs error (device sdb1): ext4_free_inode: bit already cleared for inode 168449
EXT4-fs warning (device sdb1): ext4_unlink: Deleting nonexistent file ...
EXT4-fs warning (device sdb1): ext4_rmdir: empty directory has too many links ...
ls: /mnt/tmp/f/p369/d3/d6/d39/db2/dee/d10f/d3f/l71: Stale NFS file handle

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V &lt;aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ext4: Fix race between read_block_bitmap() and mark_diskspace_used()</title>
<updated>2009-02-20T22:37:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Aneesh Kumar K.V</name>
<email>aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-02-17T15:58:33+00:00</published>
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(cherry picked from commit e8134b27e351e813414da3b95aa8eac6d3908088)

We need to make sure we update the block bitmap and clear
EXT4_BG_BLOCK_UNINIT flag with sb_bgl_lock held, since
ext4_read_block_bitmap() looks at EXT4_BG_BLOCK_UNINIT to decide
whether to initialize the block bitmap each time it is called
(introduced by commit c806e68f), and this can race with block
allocations in ext4_mb_mark_diskspace_used().

ext4_read_block_bitmap does:

spin_lock(sb_bgl_lock(EXT4_SB(sb), block_group));
if (desc-&gt;bg_flags &amp; cpu_to_le16(EXT4_BG_BLOCK_UNINIT)) {
	ext4_init_block_bitmap(sb, bh, block_group, desc);

Now on the block allocation side we do

mb_set_bits(sb_bgl_lock(sbi, ac-&gt;ac_b_ex.fe_group), bitmap_bh-&gt;b_data,
			ac-&gt;ac_b_ex.fe_start, ac-&gt;ac_b_ex.fe_len);
....
spin_lock(sb_bgl_lock(sbi, ac-&gt;ac_b_ex.fe_group));
if (gdp-&gt;bg_flags &amp; cpu_to_le16(EXT4_BG_BLOCK_UNINIT)) {
	gdp-&gt;bg_flags &amp;= cpu_to_le16(~EXT4_BG_BLOCK_UNINIT);

ie on allocation we update the bitmap then we take the sb_bgl_lock
and clear the EXT4_BG_BLOCK_UNINIT flag. What can happen is a
parallel ext4_read_block_bitmap can zero out the bitmap in between
the above mb_set_bits and spin_lock(sb_bg_lock..)

The race results in below user visible errors
EXT4-fs error (device sdb1): ext4_mb_release_inode_pa: free 100, pa_free 105
EXT4-fs error (device sdb1): mb_free_blocks: double-free of inode 0's block ..

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V &lt;aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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(cherry picked from commit e8134b27e351e813414da3b95aa8eac6d3908088)

We need to make sure we update the block bitmap and clear
EXT4_BG_BLOCK_UNINIT flag with sb_bgl_lock held, since
ext4_read_block_bitmap() looks at EXT4_BG_BLOCK_UNINIT to decide
whether to initialize the block bitmap each time it is called
(introduced by commit c806e68f), and this can race with block
allocations in ext4_mb_mark_diskspace_used().

ext4_read_block_bitmap does:

spin_lock(sb_bgl_lock(EXT4_SB(sb), block_group));
if (desc-&gt;bg_flags &amp; cpu_to_le16(EXT4_BG_BLOCK_UNINIT)) {
	ext4_init_block_bitmap(sb, bh, block_group, desc);

Now on the block allocation side we do

mb_set_bits(sb_bgl_lock(sbi, ac-&gt;ac_b_ex.fe_group), bitmap_bh-&gt;b_data,
			ac-&gt;ac_b_ex.fe_start, ac-&gt;ac_b_ex.fe_len);
....
spin_lock(sb_bgl_lock(sbi, ac-&gt;ac_b_ex.fe_group));
if (gdp-&gt;bg_flags &amp; cpu_to_le16(EXT4_BG_BLOCK_UNINIT)) {
	gdp-&gt;bg_flags &amp;= cpu_to_le16(~EXT4_BG_BLOCK_UNINIT);

ie on allocation we update the bitmap then we take the sb_bgl_lock
and clear the EXT4_BG_BLOCK_UNINIT flag. What can happen is a
parallel ext4_read_block_bitmap can zero out the bitmap in between
the above mb_set_bits and spin_lock(sb_bg_lock..)

The race results in below user visible errors
EXT4-fs error (device sdb1): ext4_mb_release_inode_pa: free 100, pa_free 105
EXT4-fs error (device sdb1): mb_free_blocks: double-free of inode 0's block ..

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V &lt;aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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