From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext3/4: fix uninitialized bs in ext3/4_xattr_set_handle()
Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 19:18:59 -0500
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To: Tiger Yang <tiger.yang@oracle.com>
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Tiger Yang wrote:
> Hi,
> I met a bug when I try to replace a xattr entry in ibody with a big size 
> value. But in ibody there has no space for the new value. So it should 
> set new xattr entry in block and remove the old xattr entry in ibody.
> 
> Best regards,
> tiger
> 

Tiger, do you have a testcase handy to demonstrate this?

Is the new, large out-of-inode xattr unique so that it does not match
any existing attribute block, I assume?

Thanks,

-Eric