[patch 029/133] ext3: fix chain verification in ext3_get_blocks()

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From: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>

Chain verification in ext3_get_blocks() has been hosed since it called
verify_chain(chain, NULL) which always returns success.  As a result
readers could in theory race with truncate.  On the other hand the race
probably cannot happen with the current locking scheme, since by the time
ext3_truncate() is called all the pages are already removed and hence
get_block() shouldn't be called on such pages...

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
Cc: <linux-ext4@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---

 fs/ext3/inode.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff -puN fs/ext3/inode.c~ext3-fix-chain-verification-in-ext3_get_blocks fs/ext3/inode.c
--- a/fs/ext3/inode.c~ext3-fix-chain-verification-in-ext3_get_blocks
+++ a/fs/ext3/inode.c
@@ -820,7 +820,7 @@ int ext3_get_blocks_handle(handle_t *han
 		while (count < maxblocks && count <= blocks_to_boundary) {
 			ext3_fsblk_t blk;
 
-			if (!verify_chain(chain, partial)) {
+			if (!verify_chain(chain, chain + depth - 1)) {
 				/*
 				 * Indirect block might be removed by
 				 * truncate while we were reading it.
_
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