Re: [PATCH v2] f2fs: fix potential .flags overflow on 32bit architecture

From: Joe Perches
Date: Sun Mar 22 2020 - 10:57:53 EST


On Sun, 2020-03-22 at 21:56 +0800, Chao Yu wrote:
> From: Chao Yu <yuchao0@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> f2fs_inode_info.flags is unsigned long variable, it has 32 bits
> in 32bit architecture, since we introduced FI_MMAP_FILE flag
> when we support data compression, we may access memory cross
> the border of .flags field, corrupting .i_sem field, result in
> below deadlock.
>
> To fix this issue, let's expand .flags as an array to grab enough
> space to store new flags.
[]
> +static inline void __set_inode_flag(struct inode *inode, int flag)
> +{
> + if (!test_bit(flag % BITS_PER_LONG,
> + &F2FS_I(inode)->flags[BIT_WORD(flag)]))
> + set_bit(flag % BITS_PER_LONG,
> + &F2FS_I(inode)->flags[BIT_WORD(flag)]);
> +}

I believe you don't need to do anything like this
but just let test_bit and set_bit do the indexing.

if (!test_bit(flg, F2FS_I(inode->flags)))
set_bit(flag, F2FS_I(inode->flags));

And there already is a function called test_and_set_bit()