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FAILED: patch "[PATCH] udf: Fix races with i_size changes during readpage" failed to apply to 4.9-stable tree

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The patch below does not apply to the 4.9-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit id to <[email protected]>.

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greg k-h

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From 9795e0e8ac0d6a3ee092f1b555b284b57feef99e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: Jan Kara <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2017 15:54:58 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] udf: Fix races with i_size changes during readpage

__udf_adinicb_readpage() uses i_size several times. When truncate changes i_size while the function is running, it can observe several different values and thus e.g. expose uninitialized parts of page to userspace. Also use i_size_read() in the function since it does not hold inode_lock. Since i_size is guaranteed to be small, this cannot really cause any issues even on 32-bit archs but let's be careful.

Fixes 9c2fc0de1a6e638fe58c354a463f544f42a90a09
fs/udf/file.c +7 -2
index f5eb2d5b3bac..e06d2c15749a 100644
@@ -43,10 +43,15 @@ static void __udf_adinicb_readpage(struct page *page)
 	struct inode *inode = page->mapping->host;
 	char *kaddr;
 	struct udf_inode_info *iinfo = UDF_I(inode);
+	loff_t isize = i_size_read(inode);
 
+	/*
+	 * We have to be careful here as truncate can change i_size under us.
+	 * So just sample it once and use the same value everywhere.
+	 */
 	kaddr = kmap_atomic(page);
-	memcpy(kaddr, iinfo->i_ext.i_data + iinfo->i_lenEAttr, inode->i_size);
-	memset(kaddr + inode->i_size, 0, PAGE_SIZE - inode->i_size);
+	memcpy(kaddr, iinfo->i_ext.i_data + iinfo->i_lenEAttr, isize);
+	memset(kaddr + isize, 0, PAGE_SIZE - isize);
 	flush_dcache_page(page);
 	SetPageUptodate(page);
 	kunmap_atomic(kaddr);