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From: Artem Savkov <asavkov@redhat.com>
To: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make __xfs_xattr_put_listen preperly report errors.
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2016 10:08:33 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160824080833.GA11104@shodan.usersys.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160824015551.GB19025@dastard>

On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 11:55:51AM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 05:54:13PM +0200, Artem Savkov wrote:
> > Commit "xfs: only return -errno or success from attr ->put_listent" changes the
> 
> Please quote commits in --oneline format in changelogs - it makes it
> much easier to find the change you are refering to if there is both
> a commit ID and the text string in the commit message. (i.e. text
> string confirms the commit id is the one you meant to quote).

Noted, thanks.

> 
> commit 2a6fba6 ("xfs: only return -errno or success from attr
> ->put_listent") is the one you are refering to here, right?

Yes, that is the one.

> > returnvalue of __xfs_xattr_put_listen to 0 in case when there is insufficient
> > space in the buffer assuming that setting context->count to -1 would be enough,
> > but all of the ->put_listent callers only check seen_enough. This results in
> > a failed assertion:
> > XFS: Assertion failed: context->count >= 0, file: fs/xfs/xfs_xattr.c, line: 175
> > in insufficient buffer size case.
> 
> You have a test case? Can you turn it into an xfstest? We really
> need regression tests that cover issues like this....
> 

llistxattr02 test from LTP reliably hits this, I'll see how this can be
ported to xfstest.

> > Signed-off-by: Artem Savkov <asavkov@redhat.com>
> > ---
> >  fs/xfs/xfs_xattr.c | 1 +
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_xattr.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_xattr.c
> > index ea62245..6290093 100644
> > --- a/fs/xfs/xfs_xattr.c
> > +++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_xattr.c
> > @@ -147,6 +147,7 @@ __xfs_xattr_put_listent(
> >  	arraytop = context->count + prefix_len + namelen + 1;
> >  	if (arraytop > context->firstu) {
> >  		context->count = -1;	/* insufficient space */
> > +		context->seen_enough = 1;
> >  		return 0;
> >  	}
> >  	offset = (char *)context->alist + context->count;
> 
> Looks sane, though I don't know how to test it yet....
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Dave.
> -- 
> Dave Chinner
> david@fromorbit.com

-- 
Regards,
  Artem

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Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-08-23 15:54 [PATCH] Make __xfs_xattr_put_listen preperly report errors Artem Savkov
2016-08-24  1:55 ` Dave Chinner
2016-08-24  8:08   ` Artem Savkov [this message]
2016-08-25  0:24     ` Dave Chinner
2016-08-25  8:21       ` Artem Savkov
2016-08-25 22:42         ` Dave Chinner
2016-08-26  8:59           ` Artem Savkov
2016-08-28 22:55             ` Dave Chinner
2016-08-29  8:12               ` [PATCH v2] " Artem Savkov
2016-08-25 21:36 ` [PATCH] " Eric Sandeen

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