ext4: zero out nanosecond timestamps for small inodes
authorEric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Mon, 20 Dec 2010 03:10:31 +0000 (22:10 -0500)
committerTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Mon, 20 Dec 2010 03:10:31 +0000 (22:10 -0500)
When nanosecond timestamp resolution isn't supported on an ext4
partition (inode size = 128), stat() appears to be returning
uninitialized garbage in the nanosecond component of timestamps.

EXT4_INODE_GET_XTIME should zero out tv_nsec when EXT4_FITS_IN_INODE
evaluates to false.

Reported-by: Jordan Russell <jr-list-2010@quo.to>
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
fs/ext4/ext4.h

index 49f1cea..8104ab7 100644 (file)
@@ -693,6 +693,8 @@ do {                                                                               \
        if (EXT4_FITS_IN_INODE(raw_inode, EXT4_I(inode), xtime ## _extra))     \
                ext4_decode_extra_time(&(inode)->xtime,                        \
                                       raw_inode->xtime ## _extra);            \
+       else                                                                   \
+               (inode)->xtime.tv_nsec = 0;                                    \
 } while (0)
 
 #define EXT4_EINODE_GET_XTIME(xtime, einode, raw_inode)                               \
@@ -703,6 +705,8 @@ do {                                                                               \
        if (EXT4_FITS_IN_INODE(raw_inode, einode, xtime ## _extra))            \
                ext4_decode_extra_time(&(einode)->xtime,                       \
                                       raw_inode->xtime ## _extra);            \
+       else                                                                   \
+               (einode)->xtime.tv_nsec = 0;                                   \
 } while (0)
 
 #define i_disk_version osd1.linux1.l_i_version