On Fri, Sep 09, 2022 at 11:07:56AM +0800, Stephen Zhang wrote: > Given that > max >= lowest, > hence if > got.br_startoff >= max + len, > then, at the same time, > got.br_startoff >= lowest + len, > > So the check here is redundant, remove it. Check your types: what happens when *first_unused = XFS_DIR2_LEAF_OFFSET? > Signed-off-by: Shida Zhang <zhangshida@xxxxxxxxxx> > --- > fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_bmap.c | 3 +-- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_bmap.c b/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_bmap.c > index e56723dc9cd5..f8a984c41b01 100644 > --- a/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_bmap.c > +++ b/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_bmap.c > @@ -1230,8 +1230,7 @@ xfs_bmap_first_unused( > /* > * See if the hole before this extent will work. > */ > - if (got.br_startoff >= lowest + len && > - got.br_startoff - max >= len) > + if (got.br_startoff - max >= len) > break; > lastaddr = got.br_startoff + got.br_blockcount; > max = XFS_FILEOFF_MAX(lastaddr, lowest); This loop does a linear scan of the extent list, so it starts at extent index zero which will be got.br_startoff = 0 for the first directory data block. When we are called from xfs_da_grow_inode_int(), we're trying to add blocks in the directory leaf btree segment here. Hence the lowest file offset we want to search for a hole is XFS_DIR2_LEAF_OFFSET. Given that all the types and comparisons involved are 64 bit unsigned: typedef uint64_t xfs_fileoff_t; /* block number in a file */ #define XFS_FILEOFF_MAX(a,b) max_t(xfs_fileoff_t, (a), (b)) xfs_fileoff_t br_startoff; xfs_fileoff_t lastaddr = 0; xfs_fileoff_t lowest, max; We end up with the following calculations (in FSBs, not bytes): lowest + len = 0x800000ULL + 1 = 0x800001ULL got.br_startoff - max = 0ULL - 0x800000 = 0xffffffffff800000ULL and so the existing check is: if (0 >= 0x800001ULL && 0xffffffffff800000 >= 1) which evaluates as false because the extent that was found is not beyond the initial offset (first_unused) that we need to start searching at. With your modification, this would now evaluate as: if (0xffffffffff800000 >= 1) Because of the underflow, this would then evaluate as true and we'd return 0 as the first unused offset. This is incorrect as we do not have a hole at offset 0, nor is it within the correct directory offset segment, nor is it within the search bounds we have specified. If these were all signed types, then your proposed code might be correct. But they are unsigned and hence we have to ensure that we handle overflow/underflow appropriately. Which leads me to ask: did you test this change before you send it to the list? Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx