On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 09:22:40PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote: > On 5/15/14, 1:59 PM, Eric Sandeen wrote: > > After: > > > > bbd3275 repair: don't unlock prefetch tree to read discontig buffers > > > > Coverity spotted that it's possible for us to arrive at the loop > > below with num == 1, and then we decrement it to 0, and try to > > index bplist[num-1]. > > > > I think this was possible before the change, i.e. it's probably > > not a regression. > > > > Fix this by not trying to shrink the window unless we have > > more than one buffer in the array. > > > > Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxx> > > --- > > FWIW, I'm not sure this can actually be hit; see below. > > > > > diff --git a/repair/prefetch.c b/repair/prefetch.c > > index 4595310..b6d4755 100644 > > --- a/repair/prefetch.c > > +++ b/repair/prefetch.c > > @@ -505,7 +505,7 @@ pf_batch_read( > > first_off = LIBXFS_BBTOOFF64(XFS_BUF_ADDR(bplist[0])); > > last_off = LIBXFS_BBTOOFF64(XFS_BUF_ADDR(bplist[num-1])) + > > XFS_BUF_SIZE(bplist[num-1]); > > Indexing bplist[num-1] after we do num-- is only a problem if num==1. > > If num==1, then last_off - first_off == XFS_BUF_SIZE(bplist[0]) above. > > > - while (last_off - first_off > pf_max_bytes) { > > so we can only go here if XFS_BUF_SIZE(bplist[0] > pf_max_bytes, and > > pf_max_bytes = sysconf(_SC_PAGE_SIZE) << 7; > > for a 4k page that's 512k. > > So unless XFS_BUF_SIZE(bplist[0]) > 512k, we won't run into trouble. For prefetch, it can't be more than 64k (the maximum size of a metadata block), so I think we're safe right at the moment. > And I don't ... think that can happen, right? So it's probably impossible > to hit; worth being defensive, but not critical. Agreed, it doesn't appear like a critical fix. I'll queue it up for after the 3.2.0 release. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs