Re: [PATCH] Propagate CRAMFS uncompression errors

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Mon Feb 09 2009 - 18:16:43 EST


On Fri, 6 Feb 2009 21:55:29 -0500
"David VomLehn (dvomlehn)" <dvomlehn@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> If cramfs_uncompress_block detects an error uncompressing it will
> return a zero value. This patch checks the return value and propagates
> the error back up to the block layer.
>
> Signed-off-by: David VomLehn <dvomlehn@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> fs/cramfs/inode.c | 10 +++++++++-
> 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/cramfs/inode.c b/fs/cramfs/inode.c
> index a07338d..6ff8a5e 100644
> --- a/fs/cramfs/inode.c
> +++ b/fs/cramfs/inode.c
> @@ -493,7 +493,15 @@ static int cramfs_readpage(struct file *file,
> struct page * page)

Your email client is wordwrapping the patches.

> memset(pgdata + bytes_filled, 0, PAGE_CACHE_SIZE -
> bytes_filled);
> kunmap(page);
> flush_dcache_page(page);
> - SetPageUptodate(page);
> +
> + if (bytes_filled == 0) {
> + ClearPageUptodate(page);
> + SetPageError(page);
> + }
> +
> + else
> + SetPageUptodate(page);
> +
> unlock_page(page);
> return 0;

A more typical code layout would be

if (bytes_filled == 0) {
ClearPageUptodate(page);
SetPageError(page);
} else
SetPageUptodate(page);

or (better, IMO):

if (bytes_filled == 0) {
ClearPageUptodate(page);
SetPageError(page);
} else {
SetPageUptodate(page);
}


This patch will incorrectly cause the driver to report an IO error if
the (page->index < maxblock) test returns false. For example, a
pread() which is wholly outside the end-of-file should return zero, not
-EIO.

cramfs_readpage() handles this case very strangely, although not
obviously buggily. Probably this function never even gets called for a
read wholly outside i_size.

How does this version look to you?

--- a/fs/cramfs/inode.c~propagate-cramfs-uncompression-errors
+++ a/fs/cramfs/inode.c
@@ -488,12 +488,19 @@ static int cramfs_readpage(struct file *
compr_len);
mutex_unlock(&read_mutex);
}
- } else
- pgdata = kmap(page);
- memset(pgdata + bytes_filled, 0, PAGE_CACHE_SIZE - bytes_filled);
- kunmap(page);
- flush_dcache_page(page);
- SetPageUptodate(page);
+
+ if (bytes_filled == 0) {
+ /* Decompression error */
+ ClearPageUptodate(page);
+ SetPageError(page);
+ } else {
+ memset(pgdata + bytes_filled, 0,
+ PAGE_CACHE_SIZE - bytes_filled);
+ flush_dcache_page(page);
+ SetPageUptodate(page);
+ }
+ kunmap(page);
+ }
unlock_page(page);
return 0;
}
_

After applying, this is what we have:

static int cramfs_readpage(struct file *file, struct page * page)
{
struct inode *inode = page->mapping->host;
u32 maxblock, bytes_filled;
void *pgdata;

maxblock = (inode->i_size + PAGE_CACHE_SIZE - 1) >> PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT;
bytes_filled = 0;
if (page->index < maxblock) {
struct super_block *sb = inode->i_sb;
u32 blkptr_offset = OFFSET(inode) + page->index*4;
u32 start_offset, compr_len;

start_offset = OFFSET(inode) + maxblock*4;
mutex_lock(&read_mutex);
if (page->index)
start_offset = *(u32 *) cramfs_read(sb, blkptr_offset-4, 4);
compr_len = (*(u32 *) cramfs_read(sb, blkptr_offset, 4) - start_offset);
mutex_unlock(&read_mutex);
pgdata = kmap(page);
if (compr_len == 0)
; /* hole */
else if (compr_len > (PAGE_CACHE_SIZE << 1))
printk(KERN_ERR "cramfs: bad compressed blocksize %u\n", compr_len);
else {
mutex_lock(&read_mutex);
bytes_filled = cramfs_uncompress_block(pgdata,
PAGE_CACHE_SIZE,
cramfs_read(sb, start_offset, compr_len),
compr_len);
mutex_unlock(&read_mutex);
}

if (bytes_filled == 0) {
/* Decompression error */
ClearPageUptodate(page);
SetPageError(page);
} else {
memset(pgdata + bytes_filled, 0,
PAGE_CACHE_SIZE - bytes_filled);
flush_dcache_page(page);
SetPageUptodate(page);
}
kunmap(page);
}
unlock_page(page);
return 0;
}

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