Re: [PATCH] iomap: handle error conditions more gracefully in iomap_to_bh

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On Wed, Sep 06, 2023 at 04:30:39PM +0200, Christian Brauner wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 05, 2023 at 08:39:53AM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 05, 2023 at 02:41:20PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > > iomap_to_bh currently BUG()s when the passed in block number is not
> > > in the iomap.  For file systems that have proper synchronization this
> > > should never happen and so far hasn't in mainline, but for block devices
> > > size changes aren't fully synchronized against ongoing I/O.  Instead
> > > of BUG()ing in this case, return -EIO to the caller, which already has
> > > proper error handling.  While we're at it, also return -EIO for an
> > > unknown iomap state instead of returning garbage.
> > > 
> > > Fixes: 487c607df790 ("block: use iomap for writes to block devices")
> > > Reported-by: syzbot+4a08ffdf3667b36650a1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > 
> > Looks like a good improvement.  Who should this go through, me (iomap)
> > or viro/brauner (vfs*) ?
> > 
> > Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > (lol is email down again?)
> 
> I can grab it if you want.
> What's up with email? Did you send this a long time ago?

This reply I only sent yesterday, but last week Konstantin reported that
gmail was DDOSing vger again, and then I didn't get any emails for 4
days.

On the bright side I did have a good sprint for online fsck. :)

--D



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