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From: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
To: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-block@vger.kernel.org, Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>,
	dm-devel@redhat.com, Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>,
	Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: limits->max_sectors is getting set to 0, why/where? [was: Re: dm: kernel oops by divide error on v4.16+]
Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2018 17:01:34 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <24e7093b-ba3a-9f0d-4c5b-572862a6c622@kernel.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGXu5jJD0b15a2yBUEiTT=Kjy2cLTVWCqhsnVZu5aKf-ieyZ+A@mail.gmail.com>

On 4/9/18 4:38 PM, Kees Cook wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 9, 2018 at 3:32 PM, Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> wrote:
>> That's bad, for sure, but my worry was bigger than an oops or crash,
>> we could have had corruption due to this.
>>
>> The resulting min/max and friends would have been trivial to test, but
>> clearly they weren't.
> 
> Yeah, that was bad luck and my fault: I tested min(), max(), min_t(),

It's only bad luck if it was tested :-)

> and max_t(). My assumption was that since the others were built from
> them, they'd be fine. Not true in this shadow variable case, though.
> :(  We could do something like this, which would have caught it:

Might not hurt to do.

-- 
Jens Axboe

  reply	other threads:[~2018-04-09 23:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-04-08  4:00 dm: kernel oops by divide error on v4.16+ Ming Lei
2018-04-09 15:51 ` limits->max_sectors is getting set to 0, why/where? [was: Re: dm: kernel oops by divide error on v4.16+] Mike Snitzer
2018-04-09 18:38   ` Mike Snitzer
2018-04-09 19:32     ` Jens Axboe
2018-04-09 21:26       ` Jens Axboe
2018-04-09 21:56         ` Jens Axboe
2018-04-09 22:05           ` Kees Cook
2018-04-09 22:10             ` Jens Axboe
2018-04-09 22:27               ` Ming Lei
2018-04-09 22:32                 ` Jens Axboe
2018-04-09 22:38                   ` Kees Cook
2018-04-09 23:01                     ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2018-04-09 23:54                   ` Linus Torvalds
2018-04-10  0:31                     ` Jens Axboe
2018-04-09 22:11           ` Linus Torvalds

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