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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: ocfs2-devel@oss.oracle.com
Subject: [Ocfs2-devel] [PATCH] ocfs2: fix shift left overflow
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2015 17:40:11 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150728174011.72a7380f.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <55B81EC3.9060603@huawei.com>

On Wed, 29 Jul 2015 08:30:59 +0800 Joseph Qi <joseph.qi@huawei.com> wrote:

> On 2015/7/29 4:51, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Mon, 27 Jul 2015 11:39:16 +0800 Joseph Qi <joseph.qi@huawei.com> wrote:
> > 
> >> cluster pos is defined as u32, when calculate corresponding sector it
> >> should be converted to u64 first, otherwise it may overflow.
> > 
> > What are the runtime effects of this change?
> > 
> The issue is when using large volume, for example, 9T volume with 2T already
> used, frequently create small files with O_DIRECT and the IO is not cluster
> aligned, it may clear sectors in the wrong place.

You mean it corrupts the filesystem?

So this wants to be merged asap and backported as far as possible?

  reply	other threads:[~2015-07-29  0:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-07-27  3:39 [Ocfs2-devel] [PATCH] ocfs2: fix shift left overflow Joseph Qi
2015-07-28 20:51 ` Andrew Morton
2015-07-29  0:30   ` Joseph Qi
2015-07-29  0:40     ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2015-07-29  0:59       ` Joseph Qi

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