Re: [PATCH v3 1/6] locks: consolidate common code in theflock_to_posix_lock routines

From: Jeff Layton
Date: Thu Dec 12 2013 - 05:43:34 EST


On Wed, 11 Dec 2013 17:57:24 -0500
"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 05:56:16PM -0500, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 02:07:41PM -0500, Jeff Layton wrote:
> > > On Wed, 11 Dec 2013 10:19:31 -0500
> > > "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > ...
> > > > + if (l->l_len > 0)
> > > > + fl->fl_end = fl->fl_start + l->l_len - 1;
> > > > + else if (l->l_len < 0) {
> > > > + fl->fl_end = start - 1;
> > >
> > > Erm... I think this is not quite right...
> > >
> > > "start" is uninitialized here. I think this should be:
> > >
> > > fl->fl_end = fl->fl_start - 1
> > >
> > > With that too, we can get rid of the local "start" variable. I think
> > > this may explain why I'm tripping over the BUG() in locks_remove_file.
> >
> > Yep.
> >
> > One other bug: I think l_start < 0 is actually fine in the
> > SEEK_CUR/SEEK_END cases.
> >
> > With that fixed and another comment (though I don't know how much it
> > helps), it looks like the below.
>
> Alternatively, maybe we could simplify? (On top of the previous):
>
> commit d4bf5cb021a3ac1ec07530ebda904e262cc89d11
> Author: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Wed Dec 11 17:42:32 2013 -0500
>
> locks: simplify overflow checking
>
> Or maybe we don't actually care about indicating overflow in the 32-bit
> case: sure we could fail if e.g. f_pos+start or f_pos+start+len would
> exceed 32-bits, but do we really need to?
>
> Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> diff --git a/fs/locks.c b/fs/locks.c
> index 39f2ca9..efbf577 100644
> --- a/fs/locks.c
> +++ b/fs/locks.c
> @@ -344,8 +344,8 @@ static int assign_type(struct file_lock *fl, long type)
> return 0;
> }
>
> -static int flock_to_posix_lock_common(struct file *filp, struct file_lock *fl,
> - struct flock64 *l, loff_t offset_max)
> +static int flock64_to_posix_lock(struct file *filp, struct file_lock *fl,
> + struct flock64 *l)
> {
> switch (l->l_whence) {
> case SEEK_SET:
> @@ -360,12 +360,12 @@ static int flock_to_posix_lock_common(struct file *filp, struct file_lock *fl,
> default:
> return -EINVAL;
> }
> - if (l->l_start > offset_max - fl->fl_start)
> + if (l->l_start > OFFSET_MAX - fl->fl_start)
> return -EOVERFLOW;
> fl->fl_start += l->l_start;
> if (fl->fl_start < 0)
> return -EINVAL;
> - if (l->l_len > offset_max - fl->fl_start)
> + if (l->l_len > OFFSET_MAX - fl->fl_start)
> return -EOVERFLOW;
> if (fl->fl_start + l->l_len < 0)
> return -EINVAL;
> @@ -403,22 +403,9 @@ static int flock_to_posix_lock(struct file *filp, struct file_lock *fl,
> .l_len = l->l_len,
> };
>
> - /*
> - * The use of OFFT_OFFSET_MAX here ensures we return -EOVERFLOW
> - * if the start or end of the lock could not be represented as
> - * an off_t, following SUSv3.
> - */
> - return flock_to_posix_lock_common(filp, fl, &ll, OFFT_OFFSET_MAX);
> + return flock64_to_posix_lock(filp, fl, &ll);
> }
>
> -#if BITS_PER_LONG == 32
> -static int flock64_to_posix_lock(struct file *filp, struct file_lock *fl,
> - struct flock64 *l)
> -{
> - return flock_to_posix_lock_common(filp, fl, l, OFFSET_MAX);
> -}
> -#endif
> -
> /* default lease lock manager operations */
> static void lease_break_callback(struct file_lock *fl)
> {

Makes sense to me -- be liberal in what you accept and all that...

It might be problematic for 32-bit apps that then later try to do
F_GETLK against such a lock, I doubt that'll be any worse than the
current situation. I'll toss this one onto the pile...

Thanks!
--
Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx>
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