Theodore Ts'o 90ba983f68 ext4: use atomic64_t for the per-flexbg free_clusters count ...

A user who was using a 8TB+ file system and with a very large flexbg
size (> 65536) could cause the atomic_t used in the struct flex_groups
to overflow.  This was detected by PaX security patchset:

http://forums.grsecurity.net/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=3289&p=12551#p12551

This bug was introduced in commit 9f24e4208f, so it's been around
since 2.6.30.  :-(

Fix this by using an atomic64_t for struct orlav_stats's
free_clusters.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Reviewed-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org

2013-03-11 23:39:59 -04:00

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