On Thu, May 28, 2020 at 06:27:36PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Thu, May 28, 2020 at 5:04 PM Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > if (*ppos >= i_size_read(inode)) > > return 0; > > > > + /* don't read past the lvb */ > > + if (count > i_size_read(inode) - *ppos) > > + count = i_size_read(inode) - *ppos; > > This isn't a new problem, since you effectively just moved this code, > but it's perhaps more obvious now.. > > "i_size_read()" is not necessarily stable - we do special things on > 32-bit to make sure that we get _a_ stable value for it, but it's not > necessarily guaranteed to be the same value when called twice. Think > concurrent pread() with a write.. > > So the inode size could change in between those two accesses, and the > subtraction might end up underflowing despite the check just above. > > This might not be an issue with ocfs2 (I didn't check locking), but .. case S_IFREG: inode->i_op = &dlmfs_file_inode_operations; inode->i_fop = &dlmfs_file_operations; i_size_write(inode, DLM_LVB_LEN); is the only thing that does anything to size of that sucker. IOW, that i_size_read() might as well had been an explicit 64. Actually, looking at that thing I would suggest simply static ssize_t dlmfs_file_read(struct file *filp, char __user *buf, size_t count, loff_t *ppos) { struct inode *inode = file_inode(filp); char lvb_buf[DLM_LVB_LEN]; if (!user_dlm_read_lvb(inode, lvb_buf, DLM_LVB_LEN)) return 0; return simple_read_from_buffer(buf, count, ppos, lvb_buf, DLM_LVB_LEN); } But that's belongs in a followup, IMO.