[3.8.y.z extended stable] Patch "ext4: don't leave i_crtime.tv_sec uninitialized" has been added to staging queue

[Kamal Mostafa]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    ext4: don't leave i_crtime.tv_sec uninitialized

to the linux-3.8.y-queue branch of the 3.8.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.8.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.8.13.20.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.8.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso at mit.edu>
Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2014 19:29:32 -0500
Subject: ext4: don't leave i_crtime.tv_sec uninitialized

commit 19ea80603715d473600cd993b9987bc97d042e02 upstream.

If the i_crtime field is not present in the inode, don't leave the
field uninitialized.

Fixes: ef7f38359 ("ext4: Add nanosecond timestamps")
Reported-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum at oracle.com>
Tested-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum at oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso at mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 fs/ext4/ext4.h | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/fs/ext4/ext4.h b/fs/ext4/ext4.h
index a4903ff..13644c4 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/ext4.h
+++ b/fs/ext4/ext4.h
@@ -776,6 +776,8 @@ do {									       \
 	if (EXT4_FITS_IN_INODE(raw_inode, einode, xtime))		       \
 		(einode)->xtime.tv_sec = 				       \
 			(signed)le32_to_cpu((raw_inode)->xtime);	       \
+	else								       \
+		(einode)->xtime.tv_sec = 0;				       \
 	if (EXT4_FITS_IN_INODE(raw_inode, einode, xtime ## _extra))	       \
 		ext4_decode_extra_time(&(einode)->xtime,		       \
 				       raw_inode->xtime ## _extra);	       \
--
1.8.3.2