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ext4: Initialize moved_len before calling ext4_move_extents()

PATCH Applied Akira Fujita 2 participants 2 messages Nov 18, 2009 – Nov 24, 2009 ext4 file system

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PATCH 2/3 ext4: Initialize moved_len before calling ext4_move_extents()

# This is a RESENT patch
http://marc.info/?l=linux-ext4&m=125498954712519&w=4

ext4: initialize moved_len before calling ext4_move_extents()

From: Kazuya Mio <[email protected]>

moved_len of struct move_extent is used to notify exchanged blocks count to the user space.
So at the beginning of the EXT4_IOC_MOVE_EXT,
moved_len should be always zero.
Without this patch, if wrong moved_len is passed from the user space, EXT4_IOC_MOVE_EXT will return wrong blocks count.

---
 ioctl.c       |    1 +
 move_extent.c |   12 ++----------
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
fs/ext4/ioctl.c +1 -0
index d1fe495..dbf9a8b 100644
@@ -251,6 +251,7 @@ setversion_out:
 			}
 		}
 
+		me.moved_len = 0;
 		err = ext4_move_extents(filp, donor_filp, me.orig_start,
 					me.donor_start, me.len, &me.moved_len);
 		fput(donor_filp);
fs/ext4/move_extent.c +1 -8
index 25b6b14..e2e99fd 100644
@@ -962,7 +962,6 @@ out2:
  * @orig_start:		logical start offset in block for orig
  * @donor_start:	logical start offset in block for donor
  * @len:		the number of blocks to be moved
- * @moved_len:		moved block length
  *
  * Check the arguments of ext4_move_extents() whether the files can be
  * exchanged with each other.
@@ -971,7 +970,7 @@ out2:
 static int
 mext_check_arguments(struct inode *orig_inode,
 			  struct inode *donor_inode, __u64 orig_start,
-			  __u64 donor_start, __u64 *len, __u64 moved_len)
+			  __u64 donor_start, __u64 *len)
 {
 	ext4_lblk_t orig_blocks, donor_blocks;
 	unsigned int blkbits = orig_inode->i_blkbits;
@@ -1025,13 +1024,6 @@ mext_check_arguments(struct inode *orig_inode,
 		return -EINVAL;
 	}
 
-	if (moved_len) {
-		ext4_debug("ext4 move extent: moved_len should be 0 "
-			"[ino:orig %lu, donor %lu]\n", orig_inode->i_ino,
-			donor_inode->i_ino);
-		return -EINVAL;
-	}
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Quoted 10 lines · Akira Fujita

ext4: initialize moved_len before calling ext4_move_extents()

From: Kazuya Mio <[email protected]>

moved_len of struct move_extent is used to notify exchanged blocks count to the user space.
So at the beginning of the EXT4_IOC_MOVE_EXT,
moved_len should be always zero.
Without this patch, if wrong moved_len is passed from the user space, EXT4_IOC_MOVE_EXT will return wrong blocks count.

Applied with the following rewording of the patch description:

ext4: initialize moved_len before calling ext4_move_extents()

From: Kazuya Mio <[email protected]>

The move_extent.moved_len is used to pass back the number of exchanged blocks count to user space. Currently the caller must clear this field; but we spend more code space checking for this requirement than simply zeroing the field ourselves, so let's just make life easier for everyone all around.

- Ted