fix 32-bit breakage in block device read(2)

Here's the patch that I mentioned on today's concall. The patch isn't in 3.16-rc2, but it's needed if you want to run xfstests on 32-bit kernels on 3.16-rc1 or 3.16-rc2 without seeing massive failures.

- Ted

From: Al Viro <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2014 11:31:36 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] [regression] fix 32-bit breakage in block device read(2)

blkdev_read_iter() wants to cap the iov_iter by the amount of data remaining to the end of device. That's what iov_iter_truncate() is for (trim iter->count if it's above the given limit). So far, so good, but the argument of iov_iter_truncate() is size_t, so on 32bit boxen (in case of a large device) we end up with that upper limit truncated down to 32 bits *before* comparing it with iter->count.

Easily fixed by making iov_iter_truncate() take 64bit argument - it does the right thing after such change (we only reach the assignment in there when the current value of iter->count is greater than the limit, i.e. for anything that would get truncated we don't reach the assignment at all) and that argument is not the new value of iter->count - it's an upper limit for such.

The overhead of passing u64 is not an issue - the thing is inlined, so callers passing size_t won't pay any penalty.

---
 include/linux/uio.h | 14 +++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

index e2231e4..d54985e 100644
@@ -94,8 +94,20 @@ static inline size_t iov_iter_count(struct iov_iter *i)
 	return i->count;
 }
 
-static inline void iov_iter_truncate(struct iov_iter *i, size_t count)
+/*
+ * Cap the iov_iter by given limit; note that the second argument is
+ * *not* the new size - it's upper limit for such.  Passing it a value
+ * greater than the amount of data in iov_iter is fine - it'll just do
+ * nothing in that case.
+ */
+static inline void iov_iter_truncate(struct iov_iter *i, u64 count)
 {
+	/*
+	 * count doesn't have to fit in size_t - comparison extends both
+	 * operands to u64 here and any value that would be truncated by
+	 * conversion in assignement is by definition greater than all
+	 * values of size_t, including old i->count.
+	 */
 	if (i->count > count)
 		i->count = count;
 }

2.0.0