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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: majianpeng <majianpeng@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	"viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk" <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>,
	linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] block_dev:Fix bug when read/write block-device which is larger than 16TB in 32bit-OS.
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2012 09:48:38 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120724134838.GA26102@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201207242044249532601@gmail.com>

On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 08:44:27PM +0800, majianpeng wrote:
> On 2012-05-29 16:56 majianpeng <majianpeng@gmail.com> Wrote:
> >The size of block-device is larger than 16TB, and the os is 32bit.
> >If the offset of read/write is larger then 16TB. The index of address_space will
> >overflow and supply data from low offset instead.

We can't support > 16TB block device on 32-bit systems with 4k page
size, just like we can't support files that large.

For filesystems the s_maxbytes limit of MAX_LFS_FILESIZE takes care of
that, but it seems like we miss that check for block devices.

The proper fix is to add that check (either via s_maxbytes or by
checking MAX_LFS_FILESIZE) to generic_write_checks and
generic_file_aio_read (or a block device specific wrapper)

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  reply	other threads:[~2012-07-24 13:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-05-29  8:56 [RFC] block_dev:Fix bug when read/write block-device which is larger than 16TB in 32bit-OS majianpeng
2012-07-24 12:44 ` majianpeng
2012-07-24 13:48   ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2012-07-26  5:22     ` majianpeng
2012-07-27  5:38     ` majianpeng

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