Re: [PATCH] ext4: fix possible overflow in ext4_trim_fs()

From: Ted Ts'o
Date: Mon Dec 20 2010 - 07:35:30 EST


On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 03:11:17PM +0100, Lukas Czerner wrote:
> When determining last group through ext4_get_group_no_and_offset() the
> result may be wrong in cases when range->start and range-len are too
> big, because it may overflow when summing up those two numbers.
>
> Fix that by checking range->len and limit its value to
> ext4_blocks_count(). This commit was tested by myself with expected
> result.
>
> Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@xxxxxxxxxx>

Added to the ext4 patch queue. Thanks for the ping.

- Ted
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