[PATCH] xfs_copy: don't use cached buffer reads until after libxfs_mount

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From: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@xxxxxxxxxx>

I accidentally tried to xfs_copy an ext4 filesystem, but instead of
rejecting the filesystem, the program instead crashed.  I figured out
that zeroing the superblock was enough to trigger this:

# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=1024k count=1
# xfs_copy  /dev/sda /dev/sdb
Floating point exception

The exact crash happens in this line from libxfs_getbuf_flags, which is
called from the main() routine of xfs_copy:

	if (btp == btp->bt_mount->m_ddev_targp) {
		(*bpp)->b_pag = xfs_perag_get(btp->bt_mount,
				xfs_daddr_to_agno(btp->bt_mount, blkno));

The problem here is that the uncached read filled the incore superblock
with zeroes, which means mbuf.sb_agblocks is zero.  This causes a
division by zero in xfs_daddr_to_agno, thereby crashing the program.

In commit f8b581d6, we made it so that xfs_buf structures contain a
passive reference to the associated perag structure.  That commit
assumes that no program would try a cached buffer read until the buffer
cache is fully set up, which is true throughout xfsprogs... except for
the beginning of xfs_copy.  For whatever reason, it attempts an uncached
read of the superblock to figure out the real superblock size, then
performs a *cached* read with the proper buffer length and verifier.
The cached read crashes the program.

Fix the problem by changing the (second) cached read into an uncached read.

Fixes: f8b581d6 ("libxfs: actually make buffers track the per-ag structures")
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 copy/xfs_copy.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/copy/xfs_copy.c b/copy/xfs_copy.c
index 41f594bd..79f65946 100644
--- a/copy/xfs_copy.c
+++ b/copy/xfs_copy.c
@@ -748,7 +748,7 @@ main(int argc, char **argv)
 	/* Do it again, now with proper length and verifier */
 	libxfs_buf_relse(sbp);
 
-	error = -libxfs_buf_read(mbuf.m_ddev_targp, XFS_SB_DADDR,
+	error = -libxfs_buf_read_uncached(mbuf.m_ddev_targp, XFS_SB_DADDR,
 			1 << (sb->sb_sectlog - BBSHIFT), 0, &sbp,
 			&xfs_sb_buf_ops);
 	if (error) {



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