On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 06:41:16PM +0200, Lukas Czerner wrote: > Currently in do_fallocate in collapse range case we're checking whether > offset + len is not bigger than i_size. However there is nothing which > would prevent i_size from changing so the check is pointless. It should > be done in the file system itself and the file system needs to make sure > that i_size is not going to change. The i_size check for the other > fallocate modes are also done in the filesystems. > > As it is now we can easily crash kernel by having two processes doing > truncate and fallocate collapse range at the same time. This can be > reproduced on ext4 and it is theoretically possible on xfs even though I > was not able to trigger it with this simple test. > > This commit removes the check from do_fallocate and adds it to the file > system. > > Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@xxxxxxxxxx> > Acked-by: Dave Chinner <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> Thanks, updated. - Ted -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
