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fincore: Handle large files correctly on 32 bit

PATCH Applied Tobias Stoeckmann 2 participants 2 messages Feb 25, 2018 – Feb 26, 2018 Util-Linux package

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PATCH 1/2 fincore: Handle large files correctly on 32 bit

If a file is larger than 4 GB on a 32 bit system with large file support (default), it can happen that not all pages are properly processed. This happens due to an int truncation (off_t vs size_t).

You can reproduce this on 32 bit with these commands:

$ dd if=/dev/zero of=4gb-file seek=4294967295 count=1 bs=1
$ fincore 4gb-file
fincore: failed to do mmap: 4gb-file: Invalid argument

If a file is larger than 4 GB, the first few pages of a file won't be properly processed. "len" will be smaller than window_size, but the for-loop iterates "window_size" bytes, skipping some pages.

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 misc-utils/fincore.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
misc-utils/fincore.c +2 -2
index 4641408f8..ab11594cc 100644
@@ -199,11 +199,11 @@ static int fincore_fd (struct fincore_control *ctl,
 	int warned_once = 0;
 
 	for (file_offset = 0; file_offset < file_size; file_offset += window_size) {
-		size_t len;
+		off_t len;
 		void  *window = NULL;
 
 		len = file_size - file_offset;
-		if (len >= window_size)
+		if (len >= (off_t) window_size)
 			len = window_size;
 
 		window = mmap(window, len, PROT_NONE, MAP_PRIVATE, fd, file_offset);
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Quoted 2 lines · Tobias Stoeckmann
 misc-utils/fincore.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Applied, thanks.

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