Re: [PATCH 0/5] ext4/overlayfs: fiemap related fixes

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On Sat, Apr 25, 2020 at 10:32:44AM -0700, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> On Apr 25, 2020, at 02:43, Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> > On Sat, Apr 25, 2020 at 12:11:59PM +0300, Amir Goldstein wrote:
> >> FWIW, I agree with you.
> >> And seems like Jan does as well, since he ACKed all your patches.
> >> Current patches would be easier to backport to stable kernels.
> > 
> > Honestly, the proper fix is pretty much trivial.  I wrote it up this
> > morning over coffee:
> > 
> >    http://git.infradead.org/users/hch/misc.git/shortlog/refs/heads/fiemap-fix
> > 
> > Still needs more testing, though.
> 
> The "maxbytes" value should be passed in from the caller, since this
> may be different per inode (for ext4 at least).

We should handle it, but not burden everyone else who has saner limits.



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