Re: [PATCH] ext2: Handle fiemap on empty files to prevent EINVAL

From: Jan Kara
Date: Thu Jun 12 2025 - 06:31:00 EST


On Thu 12-06-25 10:28:55, Wei Gao wrote:
> Previously, ext2_fiemap would unconditionally apply "len = min_t(u64, len,
> i_size_read(inode));", When inode->i_size was 0 (for an empty file), this
> would reduce the requested len to 0. Passing len = 0 to iomap_fiemap could
> then result in an -EINVAL error, even for valid queries on empty files.
> The new validation logic directly references ext4_fiemap_check_ranges.
>
> Link: https://github.com/linux-test-project/ltp/issues/1246
> Signed-off-by: Wei Gao <wegao@xxxxxxxx>

Thanks for the fix. Some comments below:

> diff --git a/fs/ext2/inode.c b/fs/ext2/inode.c
> index 30f8201c155f..e5cc61088f21 100644
> --- a/fs/ext2/inode.c
> +++ b/fs/ext2/inode.c
> @@ -895,10 +895,30 @@ int ext2_fiemap(struct inode *inode, struct fiemap_extent_info *fieinfo,
> u64 start, u64 len)
> {
> int ret;
> + u64 maxbytes;
>
> inode_lock(inode);
> - len = min_t(u64, len, i_size_read(inode));

So I agree this 'len' reduction to i_size looks bogus and can be removed.
But why are you adding those maxbytes checks when they are done inside
iomap_fiemap() shorly later?

Honza


> + maxbytes = inode->i_sb->s_maxbytes;
> +
> + if (len == 0) {
> + ret = -EINVAL;
> + goto unlock_inode;
> + }
> +
> + if (start > maxbytes) {
> + ret = -EFBIG;
> + goto unlock_inode;
> + }
> +
> + /*
> + * Shrink request scope to what the fs can actually handle.
> + */
> + if (len > maxbytes || (maxbytes - len) < start)
> + len = maxbytes - start;
> +
> ret = iomap_fiemap(inode, fieinfo, start, len, &ext2_iomap_ops);
> +
> +unlock_inode:
> inode_unlock(inode);
>
> return ret;
> --
> 2.49.0
>
--
Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxxx>
SUSE Labs, CR