Re: [PATCH] fanotify: fix -EOVERFLOW with large files on 64-bit

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(Adding bwh to CC - he maintains the 3.2 kernel.)On Do, 2017-11-16 at 20:43 +0100, Stefan Nuernberger wrote:
> From: Will Woods <wwoods@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> commit 1e2ee49f7f1b79f0b14884fe6a602f0411b39552 upstream.
> 
> On 64-bit systems, O_LARGEFILE is automatically added to flags inside
> the open() syscall (also openat(), blkdev_open(), etc).  Userspace
> therefore defines O_LARGEFILE to be 0 - you can use it, but it's a
> no-op.  Everything should be O_LARGEFILE by default.
> 
> But: when fanotify does create_fd() it uses dentry_open(), which
> skips
> all that.  And userspace can't set O_LARGEFILE in fanotify_init()
> because it's defined to 0.  So if fanotify gets an event regarding a
> large file, the read() will just fail with -EOVERFLOW.
> 
> This patch adds O_LARGEFILE to fanotify_init()'s event_f_flags on 64-
> bit
> systems, using the same test as open()/openat()/etc.
> 
> Addresses https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=696821
> 
> Signed-off-by: Will Woods <wwoods@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Eric Paris <eparis@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> [snu: Backported to 3.2 / 3.10: adjusted context]
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Nuernberger <snu@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Pawel Wieczorkiewicz <wipawel@xxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Simon Veith <sveith@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # 3.2.x and 3.10.x
> ---
>  fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c | 3 +++
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c
> b/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c
> index d57995e1cfd7..dd3d9d13a4c4 100644
> --- a/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c
> +++ b/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c
> @@ -712,6 +712,9 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(fanotify_init, unsigned int,
> flags, unsigned int, event_f_flags)
>  	group->fanotify_data.user = user;
>  	atomic_inc(&user->fanotify_listeners);
>  
> +	if (force_o_largefile())
> +		event_f_flags |= O_LARGEFILE;
> +
>  	group->fanotify_data.f_flags = event_f_flags;
>  #ifdef CONFIG_FANOTIFY_ACCESS_PERMISSIONS
>  	mutex_init(&group->fanotify_data.access_mutex);

Reviewed-by: Amit Shah <aams@xxxxxxxxxx>


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