Re: [PATCH] xfs: clean up xfs_set_maxicount & use in growfs

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On 2/27/14, 1:11 AM, Dave Chinner wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 12:29:22PM -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote:
>> On 2/25/14, 8:11 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>>> On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 11:27:35PM -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote:
>>>> xfs_set_maxicount() overflowed fairly easily for large filesystems
>>>> and large maxicount; we started out by multiplying dblocks by
>>>> the percentage, *then* dividing by 100, and never checked for
>>>> an overflow.  The calculations were also, IMHO, a little hard
>>>> to follow.
>>>
>>> Would be useful to get this test case into xfstests..
>>
>> Ok so I was going on Dave's assertion about that.  ;)
>>
>> To overflow, we'd need dblocks * 100 to be > 2^64-1:
>>
>> so dblocks would need to be > (2^64-1)/100
>>
>> for 4k blocks that's 655 exabytes.  Maybe not so possible after all ;)
> 
> Until the block count is corrupted by fsfuzzer? ;)
> 
>> Dave, maybe just removing the open-code is enough here.
> 
> Sure, but I still like the conversion to use mult_frac....

Ok, I do too.  Just a bit resistant to fixing what ain't
broke.  I'll see if I can write up a test to be sure we're
doing sane things statfs/growfs with the change.

-Eric

> Cheers,
> 
> Dave.
> 

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