Re: [PATCH] nfsd: fix bad offset use

From: Kent Overstreet
Date: Fri Mar 22 2013 - 17:21:31 EST


On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 04:54:34PM -0400, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 04:53:53PM -0400, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 11:18:24AM -0700, Kent Overstreet wrote:
> > > vfs_writev() updates the offset argument - but the code then passes the
> > > offset to vfs_fsync_range(). Since offset now points to the offset after
> > > what was just written, this is probably not what was intended
> >
> > Whoops--thanks! Looks like this was introduced by my
> > face15025ffdf664de95e86ae831544154d26c9c "nfsd: use vfs_fsync_range(),
> > not O_SYNC, for stable writes", in 3.8.
> >
> > I'll queue up for 3.9 and stable.
>
> (By the way, out of curiosity: how did you stumble across this?)

Just reading code - I've been trying to figure out how to improve the
way *pos pointers are passed around everywhere and I was looking at all
the users of various vfs code.

> --b.
>
> >
> > --b.
> >
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Cc: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Cc: Zach Brown <zab@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > > fs/nfsd/vfs.c | 3 ++-
> > > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/fs/nfsd/vfs.c b/fs/nfsd/vfs.c
> > > index 2a7eb53..2b2e239 100644
> > > --- a/fs/nfsd/vfs.c
> > > +++ b/fs/nfsd/vfs.c
> > > @@ -1013,6 +1013,7 @@ nfsd_vfs_write(struct svc_rqst *rqstp, struct svc_fh *fhp, struct file *file,
> > > int host_err;
> > > int stable = *stablep;
> > > int use_wgather;
> > > + loff_t pos = offset;
> > >
> > > dentry = file->f_path.dentry;
> > > inode = dentry->d_inode;
> > > @@ -1025,7 +1026,7 @@ nfsd_vfs_write(struct svc_rqst *rqstp, struct svc_fh *fhp, struct file *file,
> > >
> > > /* Write the data. */
> > > oldfs = get_fs(); set_fs(KERNEL_DS);
> > > - host_err = vfs_writev(file, (struct iovec __user *)vec, vlen, &offset);
> > > + host_err = vfs_writev(file, (struct iovec __user *)vec, vlen, &pos);
> > > set_fs(oldfs);
> > > if (host_err < 0)
> > > goto out_nfserr;
> > > --
> > > 1.8.1.3
> > >
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