Re: [PATCH] btrfs: respect the max size in the header when activating swap file

David Sterba
2022-01-03T18:31:27Z

On Thu, Dec 16, 2021 at 03:00:32PM +0000, fdmanana@kernel.org wrote:
> From: Filipe Manana <fdmanana@suse.com>
>
> If we extended the size of a swapfile after its header was created (by the
> mkswap utility) and then try to activate it, we will map the entire file
> when activating the swap file, instead of limiting to the max size defined
> in the swap file's header.
>
> Currently test case generic/643 from fstests fails because we do not
> respect that size limit defined in the swap file's header.
>
> So fix this by not mapping file ranges beyond the max size defined in the
> swap header.
>
> This is the same type of bug that iomap used to have, and was fixed in
> commit 36ca7943ac18ae ("mm/swap: consider max pages in
> iomap_swapfile_add_extent").
>
> Fixes: ed46ff3d423780 ("Btrfs: support swap files")
> Signed-off-by: Filipe Manana <fdmanana@suse.com>

Added to misc-next, thanks.