Re: [PATCH] Fix generic_block_fiemap for files bigger than 4GB

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Thu Oct 29 2009 - 11:17:58 EST


On Thu, 29 Oct 2009 08:40:56 -0400 Josef Bacik <josef@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
> Ok here it is. I've fixed all the type issues and there were other problems
> with not setting FIEMAP_EXTENT_LAST last properly. If this is more reasonable
> to you I will update it and send it along properly. Thanks,

geeze, how did we lose a patch of this magnitude?

> diff --git a/fs/ioctl.c b/fs/ioctl.c
> index ac2d47e..ee9fba0 100644
> --- a/fs/ioctl.c
> +++ b/fs/ioctl.c
> @@ -228,13 +228,22 @@ static int ioctl_fiemap(struct file *filp, unsigned long arg)
>
> #ifdef CONFIG_BLOCK
>
> -#define blk_to_logical(inode, blk) (blk << (inode)->i_blkbits)
> -#define logical_to_blk(inode, offset) (offset >> (inode)->i_blkbits);
> +static inline sector_t logical_to_blk(struct inode *inode, loff_t offset)
> +{
> + return (offset >> inode->i_blkbits);
> +}
> +
> +static inline loff_t blk_to_logical(struct inode *inode, sector_t blk)
> +{
> + return (blk << inode->i_blkbits);
> +}

ah. Adding the types really does clarify things.

> /**
> * __generic_block_fiemap - FIEMAP for block based inodes (no locking)
> * @inode - the inode to map
> - * @arg - the pointer to userspace where we copy everything to
> + * @fieinfo - the fiemap info struct that will be passed back to userspace
> + * @start - where to start mapping in the inode
> + * @len - how much space to map
> * @get_block - the fs's get_block function
> *
> * This does FIEMAP for block based inodes. Basically it will just loop
> @@ -250,43 +259,63 @@ static int ioctl_fiemap(struct file *filp, unsigned long arg)
> */
>
> int __generic_block_fiemap(struct inode *inode,
> - struct fiemap_extent_info *fieinfo, u64 start,
> - u64 len, get_block_t *get_block)
> + struct fiemap_extent_info *fieinfo, loff_t start,
> + loff_t len, get_block_t *get_block)
> {
> - struct buffer_head tmp;
> - unsigned int start_blk;
> - long long length = 0, map_len = 0;
> + struct buffer_head map_bh;
> + sector_t start_blk;

And the bugfix is there.

Has anyone actually tested this code on large files? Greater than 4G
sectors and greater than 4G pages?


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