From: "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
To: "Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Cc: linux-ext4 <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext4: limit entries returned when counting fsmap records
Date: Sat, 3 Oct 2020 01:23:59 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201003052359.GO23474@mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201001222148.GA49520@magnolia>
On Thu, Oct 01, 2020 at 03:21:48PM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> From: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
>
> If userspace asked fsmap to try to count the number of entries, we cannot
> return more than UINT_MAX entries because fmh_entries is u32.
> Therefore, stop counting if we hit this limit or else we will waste time
> to return truncated results.
>
> Fixes: 0c9ec4beecac ("ext4: support GETFSMAP ioctls")
> Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Applied, thanks.
- Ted
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2020-10-01 22:21 [PATCH] ext4: limit entries returned when counting fsmap records Darrick J. Wong
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