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authorAl Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>2014-06-23 08:44:40 +0100
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2014-06-26 13:02:28 -0700
commit0b86dbf675e0170a191a9ca18e5e99fd39a678c0 (patch)
treea135b6259c00d624188e83c1324404e21a433f64 /include/linux/uio.h
parentd7933ab727ed035bdf420d7381b831ba959cecc5 (diff)
Fix 32-bit regression in block device read(2)
blkdev_read_iter() wants to cap the iov_iter by the amount of data remaining to the end of device. That's what iov_iter_truncate() is for (trim iter->count if it's above the given limit). So far, so good, but the argument of iov_iter_truncate() is size_t, so on 32bit boxen (in case of a large device) we end up with that upper limit truncated down to 32 bits *before* comparing it with iter->count. Easily fixed by making iov_iter_truncate() take 64bit argument - it does the right thing after such change (we only reach the assignment in there when the current value of iter->count is greater than the limit, i.e. for anything that would get truncated we don't reach the assignment at all) and that argument is not the new value of iter->count - it's an upper limit for such. The overhead of passing u64 is not an issue - the thing is inlined, so callers passing size_t won't pay any penalty. Reported-and-tested-by: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Tested-by: Alan Cox <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Tested-by: Bruno Wolff III <bruno@wolff.to> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/uio.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/uio.h14
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/uio.h b/include/linux/uio.h
index e2231e47cec1..d54985e0705e 100644
--- a/include/linux/uio.h
+++ b/include/linux/uio.h
@@ -94,8 +94,20 @@ static inline size_t iov_iter_count(struct iov_iter *i)
return i->count;
}
-static inline void iov_iter_truncate(struct iov_iter *i, size_t count)
+/*
+ * Cap the iov_iter by given limit; note that the second argument is
+ * *not* the new size - it's upper limit for such. Passing it a value
+ * greater than the amount of data in iov_iter is fine - it'll just do
+ * nothing in that case.
+ */
+static inline void iov_iter_truncate(struct iov_iter *i, u64 count)
{
+ /*
+ * count doesn't have to fit in size_t - comparison extends both
+ * operands to u64 here and any value that would be truncated by
+ * conversion in assignement is by definition greater than all
+ * values of size_t, including old i->count.
+ */
if (i->count > count)
i->count = count;
}