Re: [PATCHv2] fibmap: Warn and return an error in case of block > INT_MAX

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On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 01:08:31PM +0530, Ritesh Harjani wrote:
> We better warn the fibmap user and not return a truncated and therefore
> an incorrect block map address if the bmap() returned block address
> is greater than INT_MAX (since user supplied integer pointer).
> 
> It's better to pr_warn() all user of ioctl_fibmap() and return a proper
> error code rather than silently letting a FS corruption happen if the
> user tries to fiddle around with the returned block map address.
> 
> We fix this by returning an error code of -ERANGE and returning 0 as the
> block mapping address in case if it is > INT_MAX.
> 
> Now iomap_bmap() could be called from either of these two paths.
> Either when a user is calling an ioctl_fibmap() interface to get
> the block mapping address or by some filesystem via use of bmap()
> internal kernel API.
> bmap() kernel API is well equipped with handling of u64 addresses.
> 
> WARN condition in iomap_bmap_actor() was mainly added to warn all
> the fibmap users. But now that we have directly added this warning
> for all fibmap users and also made sure to return 0 as block map address
> in case if addr > INT_MAX.
> So we can now remove this logic from iomap_bmap_actor().
> 
> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>

Well, this changed quite a bit from the previous version, so I would
have dropped the Reviewed-by tags.

That being said this version still looks good to me:

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>



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