Re: [PATCH] hfsplus: limit sb_maxbytes to partition size

Hyunchul Lee
2026-03-05T01:53:06Z

2026년 3월 5일 (목) AM 9:47, Viacheslav Dubeyko <Slava.Dubeyko@ibm.com>님이 작성:
>
> On Thu, 2026-03-05 at 09:29 +0900, Hyunchul Lee wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 04, 2026 at 08:04:30PM +0000, Viacheslav Dubeyko wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2026-03-04 at 05:08 -0800, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > > > On Tue, Mar 03, 2026 at 05:28:07PM +0900, Hyunchul Lee wrote:
> > > > > s_maxbytes currently is set to MAX_LFS_FILESIZE,
> > > > > which allows writes beyond the partition size.
> > > >
> > > > The "partition size" does not matter here. s_maxbytes is the maximum
> > > > size supported by the format and has nothing to do with the actual space
> > > > allocated to the file system (which in Linux terminology would be the
> > > > block device and not the partition anyway).
> > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > As a result,
> > > > > large-offset writes on small partitions can fail late
> > > > > with ENOSPC.
> > > >
> > > > That sounds like some other check is missing in hfsplus, but it
> > > > should be about the available free space, not the device size.
> > > >
> > >
> > > I agree with Christoph.
> > >
> > > But, frankly speaking, I don't quite follow which particular issue is under fix
> > > here. I can see that generic/268 failure has been mentioned. However, I can see
> > > this:
> > >
> > > sudo ./check generic/268
> > > FSTYP -- hfsplus
> > > PLATFORM -- Linux/x86_64 hfsplus-testing-0001 6.19.0-rc1+ #95 SMP
> > > PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Thu Feb 19 15:29:55 PST 2026
> > > MKFS_OPTIONS -- /dev/loop51
> > > MOUNT_OPTIONS -- /dev/loop51 /mnt/scratch
> > >
> > > generic/268 [not run] Reflink not supported by scratch filesystem type:
> > > hfsplus
> > > Ran: generic/268
> > > Not run: generic/268
> > > Passed all 1 tests
> > >
> > > Which particular issue is under fix?
> >
> > Sorry it's generic/285, not generic/268.
> > in generic/285, there is a test that creates a hole exceeding the block
> > size and appends small data to the file. hfsplus fails because it fills
> > the block device and returns ENOSPC. However if it returns EFBIG
> > instead, the test is skipped.
> >
> > For writes like xfs_io -c "pwrite 8t 512", should fops->write_iter
> > returns ENOSPC, or would it be better to return EFBIG?
> > >
>
> Current hfsplus_file_extend() implementation doesn't support holes. I assume you
> mean this code [1]:
>
> len = hip->clump_blocks;
> start = hfsplus_block_allocate(sb, sbi->total_blocks, goal, &len);
> if (start >= sbi->total_blocks) {
> start = hfsplus_block_allocate(sb, goal, 0, &len);
> if (start >= goal) {
> res = -ENOSPC;
> goto out;
> }
> }
>
> Am I correct?
>
Yes,

hfsplus_write_begin()
cont_write_begin()
cont_expand_zero()

1) xfs_io -c "pwrite 8t 512"
2) hfsplus_begin_write() is called with offset 2^43 and length 512
3) cont_expand_zero() allocates and zeroes out one block repeatedly
for the range
0 to 2^43 - 1. To achieve this, hfsplus_write_begin() is called repeatedly.
4) hfsplus_write_begin() allocates one block through hfsplus_get_block() =>
hfsplus_file_extend()

> Do you mean that calling logic expects -EFBIG? Potentially, if we tries to
> extend the file, then -EFBIG could be more appropriate. But it needs to check
> the whole call trace.

generic/285 creates a hole by pwrite at offset 2^43 + @ and handle the
error as follow:
https://github.com/kdave/xfstests/blob/master/src/seek_sanity_test.c#L271

if (errno == EFBIG) {
fprintf(stdout, "Test skipped as fs doesn't support so large files.\n");
ret = 0

>
> Thanks,
> Slava.
>
> [1] https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v6.19/source/fs/hfsplus/extents.c#L463

--
Thanks,
Hyunchul