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compat_sys_fcntl64: fix for locking near end of file

PATCH New John Engel 1 participant 1 message Sep 16, 2004 VFS

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PATCH 1/1 compat_sys_fcntl64: fix for locking near end of file

Andrew,
Here's a patch to fix a bug in compat_sys_fcntl64 in fs/compat.c.
The bug occurs with a 32 bit app that calls fcntl and checking for a lock near the end of a file.

   struct flock sflp;
   sflp.l_start = 2147483345;
   sflp.l_len = 302;
   /* 2147483345 + 302 == 2147483647 (this should not overflow 31 bits) */
   /* 2^31 ==             2147483648 */
   fcntl_stat = fcntl(fd, F_GETLK, &sflp);

The patch also contains a fix to handle l_len < 0 which is now defined in POSIX 1003.1-2001 from the fcntl man page.

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John Engel
IBM Linux Technology Center
fs/compat.c +16 -2
diff -ruN linux-2.6.8.1-clean/fs/compat.c linux-2.6.8.1/fs/compat.c
@@ -522,8 +522,15 @@
 		ret = sys_fcntl(fd, cmd, (unsigned long)&f);
 		set_fs(old_fs);
 		if ((cmd == F_GETLK) && (ret == 0)) {
+			/* POSIX-2001 now defines negative l_len */
+			if (f.l_len < 0) {
+				f.l_start += f.l_len;
+				f.l_len = -f.l_len;
+			}
+			if (f.l_start < 0)
+				return -EINVAL;
 			if ((f.l_start >= COMPAT_OFF_T_MAX) ||
-			    ((f.l_start + f.l_len) >= COMPAT_OFF_T_MAX))
+			    ((f.l_start + f.l_len) > COMPAT_OFF_T_MAX))
 				ret = -EOVERFLOW;
 			if (ret == 0)
 				ret = put_compat_flock(&f, compat_ptr(arg));
@@ -543,8 +550,15 @@
 				(unsigned long)&f);
 		set_fs(old_fs);
 		if ((cmd == F_GETLK64) && (ret == 0)) {
+			/* POSIX-2001 now defines negative l_len */
+			if (f.l_len < 0) {
+				f.l_start += f.l_len;
+				f.l_len = -f.l_len;
+			}
+			if (f.l_start < 0)
+				return -EINVAL;
 			if ((f.l_start >= COMPAT_LOFF_T_MAX) ||
-			    ((f.l_start + f.l_len) >= COMPAT_LOFF_T_MAX))
+			    ((f.l_start + f.l_len) > COMPAT_LOFF_T_MAX))
 				ret = -EOVERFLOW;
 			if (ret == 0)
 				ret = put_compat_flock64(&f, compat_ptr(arg));