Re: [PATCH V2] mke2fs: use ext2fs_open_file() in check_plausibility()

["Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@oracle.com>]

On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 12:47:44PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> The commit:
> 
> 802146c mke2fs: create a regular file if necessary
> 
> caused a regression on 32-bit machines; the open() fails if
> the file size is > 4G.
> 
> Using ext2fs_open_file() fixes it.
> 
> Resolves: Red Hat Bugzilla #1099892
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
> ---
> 
> V2: against master!  Sorry, first patch was against the
> bisection point.
> 
> TBH I don't know if this should be using ext2fs_open_file(),
> or some other magic like O_LARGEFILE, but this works for me,
> and we use the stat/fstat wrapper here too, so ...

/me suspects do_write_internal() in create_inode.c should use this too.

As for the patch itself, looks good, so
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>

--D
> 
> 
> 
> diff --git a/misc/util.c b/misc/util.c
> index 1c0818f..7e91509 100644
> --- a/misc/util.c
> +++ b/misc/util.c
> @@ -194,10 +194,10 @@ int check_plausibility(const char *device, int flags, int *ret_is_dev)
>  	char *fs_type = NULL;
>  	char *fs_label = NULL;
>  
> -	fd = open(device, fl, 0666);
> +	fd = ext2fs_open_file(device, fl, 0666);
>  	if ((fd < 0) && (errno == ENOENT) && (flags & CREATE_FILE)) {
>  		fl |= O_CREAT;
> -		fd = open(device, fl, 0666);
> +		fd = ext2fs_open_file(device, fl, 0666);
>  		if (fd >= 0 && (flags & VERBOSE_CREATE))
>  			printf(_("Creating regular file %s\n"), device);
>  	}
> 
> 
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