Re: [PATCH] [64/223] hostfs: fix UML crash: remove f_spare from hostfs

From: Richard Weinberger
Date: Sun Dec 12 2010 - 18:52:34 EST


Andi,

Am Montag 13 Dezember 2010, 00:46:02 schrieb Andi Kleen:
> 2.6.35-longterm review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me
> know.

This patch is not needed on 2.6.35.
It makes only sense on >= 2.6.36.

Thanks,
//richard

> ------------------
> From: Richard Weinberger <richard@xxxxxx>
>
> commit 1b627d5771312c92404b66f0a0b16f66036dd2e1 upstream.
>
> 365b1818 ("add f_flags to struct statfs(64)") resized f_spare within
> struct statfs which caused a UML crash. There is no need to copy f_spare.
>
> Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@xxxxxx>
> Reported-by: Toralf Förster <toralf.foerster@xxxxxx>
> Tested-by: Toralf Förster <toralf.foerster@xxxxxx>
> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
> Cc: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> ---
> fs/hostfs/hostfs.h | 3 +--
> fs/hostfs/hostfs_kern.c | 2 +-
> fs/hostfs/hostfs_user.c | 9 ++-------
> 3 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
>
> Index: linux/fs/hostfs/hostfs.h
> ===================================================================
> --- linux.orig/fs/hostfs/hostfs.h
> +++ linux/fs/hostfs/hostfs.h
> @@ -86,7 +86,6 @@ extern int rename_file(char *from, char
> extern int do_statfs(char *root, long *bsize_out, long long *blocks_out,
> long long *bfree_out, long long *bavail_out,
> long long *files_out, long long *ffree_out,
> - void *fsid_out, int fsid_size, long *namelen_out,
> - long *spare_out);
> + void *fsid_out, int fsid_size, long *namelen_out);
>
> #endif
> Index: linux/fs/hostfs/hostfs_kern.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux.orig/fs/hostfs/hostfs_kern.c
> +++ linux/fs/hostfs/hostfs_kern.c
> @@ -272,7 +272,7 @@ int hostfs_statfs(struct dentry *dentry,
> err = do_statfs(HOSTFS_I(dentry->d_sb->s_root->d_inode)->host_filename,
> &sf->f_bsize, &f_blocks, &f_bfree, &f_bavail, &f_files,
> &f_ffree, &sf->f_fsid, sizeof(sf->f_fsid),
> - &sf->f_namelen, sf->f_spare);
> + &sf->f_namelen);
> if (err)
> return err;
> sf->f_blocks = f_blocks;
> Index: linux/fs/hostfs/hostfs_user.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux.orig/fs/hostfs/hostfs_user.c
> +++ linux/fs/hostfs/hostfs_user.c
> @@ -402,8 +402,7 @@ int rename_file(char *from, char *to)
> int do_statfs(char *root, long *bsize_out, long long *blocks_out,
> long long *bfree_out, long long *bavail_out,
> long long *files_out, long long *ffree_out,
> - void *fsid_out, int fsid_size, long *namelen_out,
> - long *spare_out)
> + void *fsid_out, int fsid_size, long *namelen_out)
> {
> struct statfs64 buf;
> int err;
> @@ -422,10 +421,6 @@ int do_statfs(char *root, long *bsize_ou
> sizeof(buf.f_fsid) > fsid_size ? fsid_size :
> sizeof(buf.f_fsid));
> *namelen_out = buf.f_namelen;
> - spare_out[0] = buf.f_spare[0];
> - spare_out[1] = buf.f_spare[1];
> - spare_out[2] = buf.f_spare[2];
> - spare_out[3] = buf.f_spare[3];
> - spare_out[4] = buf.f_spare[4];
> +
> return 0;
> }

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