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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>, xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] xfs: fix possible overflow in xfs_ioc_trim()
Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2011 07:21:55 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110907112155.GA1017@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1109071200480.4579@dhcp-27-109.brq.redhat.com>

On Wed, Sep 07, 2011 at 12:05:14PM +0200, Lukas Czerner wrote:
> > > +	if (len > max_blks)
> > > +		len = max_blks - start;
> > 
> > Is this really the correct check?
> > 
> > Shouldn't it be
> > 
> > 	if (start + len > max_blks)
> > 		len = max_blks - start;
> > 
> > I'd also just use the mp->m_sb.sb_dblocks value directly instead
> > of assigning it to a local variable.
> > 
> 
> Agh, you're right. I am bit too hasty I guess. I thought that
> 
> if (start_agno >= mp->m_sb.sb_agcount)
> 	return -XFS_ERROR(EINVAL);
> 
> will cover us from the unreasonably big start, however if the file
> system has really huge number of AGs than it will fail to prevent the
> overflow, I am not sure if that is possible to happen, but what you
> proposed is definitely better.

The problem is that start could be very far into the fs, so checking
len alone won't help very much.  And we probably want a check if 
start + len is overflowing, too.

Care to update the test case to cover these cases as well?

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  reply	other threads:[~2011-09-07 11:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-09-06 15:29 [PATCH v2] xfs: fix possible overflow in xfs_ioc_trim() Lukas Czerner
2011-09-06 15:33 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-09-07 10:05   ` Lukas Czerner
2011-09-07 11:21     ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2011-09-07 12:26       ` Lukas Czerner
2011-09-20 13:36         ` Lukas Czerner
2011-09-20 17:12         ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-09-21  7:46           ` Lukas Czerner

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