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From: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
To: "Lukáš Czerner" <lczerner@redhat.com>
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] xfs: avoid underflow in xfs_ioc_trim()
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2012 16:49:27 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121012054927.GM2739@dastard> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1210120727170.6401@localhost>

On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 07:35:39AM +0200, Lukáš Czerner wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Oct 2012, Dave Chinner wrote:
> 
> > Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2012 08:35:33 +1100
> > From: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
> > To: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com>
> > Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
> > Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] xfs: avoid underflow in xfs_ioc_trim()
> > 
> > On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 10:33:52AM +0200, Lukas Czerner wrote:
> > > Currently if len argument in xfs_ioc_trim() is smaller than one FSB
> > > the 'end' variable underflow. Avoid that by returning EINVAL when
> > > range is smaller than FSB.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com>
> > 
> > Just a thought - wouldn't this be better done at the VFS so it is
> > consistent across all filesystems? i.e. using inode->i_blkbits?
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > 
> > Dave.
> 
> Currently I am working on patches for other file system, so we'll
> get it fix. Having the check in VFS would require to make FITRIM
> file system (inode?) operation

Not at all - filp->mapping->host gets you the inode....
>
> , or adding cmd specific sections to
> the vfs_ioctl().

But that's a fair reason not to....

Cheers,

Dave.
-- 
Dave Chinner
david@fromorbit.com

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      reply	other threads:[~2012-10-12  5:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-10-11  8:33 [PATCH v2] xfs: avoid underflow in xfs_ioc_trim() Lukas Czerner
2012-10-11 21:35 ` Dave Chinner
2012-10-12  5:35   ` Lukáš Czerner
2012-10-12  5:49     ` Dave Chinner [this message]

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