On 04/04/2018 06:48 PM, Jeff Mahoney wrote:
> On 4/4/18 9:45 PM, Andrew Morton wrote:
>> On Wed, 4 Apr 2018 18:25:16 -0700 Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>
>>> If the reiserfs mount option's journal name contains a '%' character,
>>> it can lead to a WARN_ONCE() in lib/vsprintf.c::format_decode(),
>>> saying: "Please remove unsupported %/ in format string."
>>> That's OK until panic_on_warn is set, at which point it's dead, Jim.
>>>
>>> To placate this situation, check the journal name string for a '%'
>>> character and return an error if one is found. Also print a warning
>>> (one that won't panic the kernel) about the invalid journal name (e.g.):
>>>
>>> reiserfs: journal device name is invalid: %/file0
>>>
>>> (In this example, the caller app specified the journal device name as
>>> "%/file0".)
>>>
>>
>> Well, that is a valid filename and we should support it...
>>
>> Isn't the bug in journal_init_dev()?
OK, thanks.
> Yep. That's exactly it.
>
> Acked-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@xxxxxxxx>
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Jeff
>
>> --- a/fs/reiserfs/journal.c~a
>> +++ a/fs/reiserfs/journal.c
>> @@ -2643,7 +2643,7 @@ static int journal_init_dev(struct super
>> if (IS_ERR(journal->j_dev_bd)) {
>> result = PTR_ERR(journal->j_dev_bd);
>> journal->j_dev_bd = NULL;
>> - reiserfs_warning(super,
>> + reiserfs_warning(super, "sh-457",
>> "journal_init_dev: Cannot open '%s': %i",
>> jdev_name, result);
>> return result;
>> _
>>
>>
>
>
--
~Randy
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