This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled Clarify (and fix) MAX_LFS_FILESIZE macros to the 4.12-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: clarify-and-fix-max_lfs_filesize-macros.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.12 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 0cc3b0ec23ce4c69e1e890ed2b8d2fa932b14aad Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2017 12:12:25 -0700 Subject: Clarify (and fix) MAX_LFS_FILESIZE macros From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit 0cc3b0ec23ce4c69e1e890ed2b8d2fa932b14aad upstream. We have a MAX_LFS_FILESIZE macro that is meant to be filled in by filesystems (and other IO targets) that know they are 64-bit clean and don't have any 32-bit limits in their IO path. It turns out that our 32-bit value for that limit was bogus. On 32-bit, the VM layer is limited by the page cache to only 32-bit index values, but our logic for that was confusing and actually wrong. We used to define that value to (((loff_t)PAGE_SIZE << (BITS_PER_LONG-1))-1) which is actually odd in several ways: it limits the index to 31 bits, and then it limits files so that they can't have data in that last byte of a page that has the highest 31-bit index (ie page index 0x7fffffff). Neither of those limitations make sense. The index is actually the full 32 bit unsigned value, and we can use that whole full page. So the maximum size of the file would logically be "PAGE_SIZE << BITS_PER_LONG". However, we do wan tto avoid the maximum index, because we have code that iterates over the page indexes, and we don't want that code to overflow. So the maximum size of a file on a 32-bit host should actually be one page less than the full 32-bit index. So the actual limit is ULONG_MAX << PAGE_SHIFT. That means that we will not actually be using the page of that last index (ULONG_MAX), but we can grow a file up to that limit. The wrong value of MAX_LFS_FILESIZE actually caused problems for Doug Nazar, who was still using a 32-bit host, but with a 9.7TB 2 x RAID5 volume. It turns out that our old MAX_LFS_FILESIZE was 8TiB (well, one byte less), but the actual true VM limit is one page less than 16TiB. This was invisible until commit c2a9737f45e2 ("vfs,mm: fix a dead loop in truncate_inode_pages_range()"), which started applying that MAX_LFS_FILESIZE limit to block devices too. NOTE! On 64-bit, the page index isn't a limiter at all, and the limit is actually just the offset type itself (loff_t), which is signed. But for clarity, on 64-bit, just use the maximum signed value, and don't make people have to count the number of 'f' characters in the hex constant. So just use LLONG_MAX for the 64-bit case. That was what the value had been before too, just written out as a hex constant. Fixes: c2a9737f45e2 ("vfs,mm: fix a dead loop in truncate_inode_pages_range()") Reported-and-tested-by: Doug Nazar <nazard@xxxxxxxx> Cc: Andreas Dilger <adilger@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- include/linux/fs.h | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/include/linux/fs.h +++ b/include/linux/fs.h @@ -891,9 +891,9 @@ static inline struct file *get_file(stru /* Page cache limit. The filesystems should put that into their s_maxbytes limits, otherwise bad things can happen in VM. */ #if BITS_PER_LONG==32 -#define MAX_LFS_FILESIZE (((loff_t)PAGE_SIZE << (BITS_PER_LONG-1))-1) +#define MAX_LFS_FILESIZE ((loff_t)ULONG_MAX << PAGE_SHIFT) #elif BITS_PER_LONG==64 -#define MAX_LFS_FILESIZE ((loff_t)0x7fffffffffffffffLL) +#define MAX_LFS_FILESIZE ((loff_t)LLONG_MAX) #endif #define FL_POSIX 1 Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.12/perf-core-fix-group-cpu-task-validation.patch queue-4.12/mm-madvise.c-fix-freeing-of-locked-page-with-madv_free.patch queue-4.12/timers-fix-excessive-granularity-of-new-timers-after-a-nohz-idle.patch queue-4.12/x86-mm-fix-use-after-free-of-ldt_struct.patch queue-4.12/mm-shmem-fix-handling-sys-kernel-mm-transparent_hugepage-shmem_enabled.patch queue-4.12/mm-memblock.c-reversed-logic-in-memblock_discard.patch queue-4.12/dax-fix-deadlock-due-to-misaligned-pmd-faults.patch queue-4.12/clarify-and-fix-max_lfs_filesize-macros.patch queue-4.12/pm-hibernate-touch-nmi-watchdog-when-creating-snapshot.patch queue-4.12/fork-fix-incorrect-fput-of-exe_file-causing-use-after-free.patch