Re: [PATCH 7/8] xfs_io: fix pwrite/pread length truncation on 32-bit systems

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On Thu, Jan 23, 2020 at 04:17:17PM -0800, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> From: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> The pwrite and pread commands in xfs_io accept an operation length that
> can be any quantity that fits in a long long int; and loops to handle
> the cases where the operation length is larger than the IO buffer.
> 
> Weirdly, the do_ functions contain code to shorten the operation to the
> IO buffer size but the @count parameter is size_t, which means that for
> a large argument on a 32-bit system, we rip off the upper bits of the
> length, turning your 8GB write into a 0 byte write, which does nothing.
> 
> This was found by running generic/175 and observing that the 8G test
> file it creates has zero length after the operation:
> 
> wrote 0/8589934592 bytes at offset 0
> 0.000000 bytes, 0 ops; 0.0001 sec (0.000000 bytes/sec and 0.0000 ops/sec)
> 
> Fix this by pushing long long count all the way through the call stack.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@xxxxxxxxxx>

Looks good,

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>



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