Re: [PATCH] Fix nasty 32-bit overflow bug in buffer i/o code.

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On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 5:53 PM, Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> This patch fixes this issue by type casting "index" to sector_t before
> doing the left shift.

Ugh. Does the simpler patch to just pass in "block" work as well?

                    Linus
 fs/buffer.c | 5 ++---
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/buffer.c b/fs/buffer.c
index 8f05111bbb8b..f32d6a3cff38 100644
--- a/fs/buffer.c
+++ b/fs/buffer.c
@@ -1021,8 +1021,7 @@ grow_dev_page(struct block_device *bdev, sector_t block,
 	if (page_has_buffers(page)) {
 		bh = page_buffers(page);
 		if (bh->b_size == size) {
-			end_block = init_page_buffers(page, bdev,
-						index << sizebits, size);
+			end_block = init_page_buffers(page, bdev, block, size);
 			goto done;
 		}
 		if (!try_to_free_buffers(page))
@@ -1043,7 +1042,7 @@ grow_dev_page(struct block_device *bdev, sector_t block,
 	 */
 	spin_lock(&inode->i_mapping->private_lock);
 	link_dev_buffers(page, bh);
-	end_block = init_page_buffers(page, bdev, index << sizebits, size);
+	end_block = init_page_buffers(page, bdev, block, size);
 	spin_unlock(&inode->i_mapping->private_lock);
 done:
 	ret = (block < end_block) ? 1 : -ENXIO;

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