RE: [Revised PATCH v2] hv: kvp: Avoid reading past allocated blocks from KVP file

From: KY Srinivasan
Date: Wed Nov 08 2017 - 13:34:47 EST




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> From: Haiyang Zhang
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> Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>;
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> Subject: RE: [Revised PATCH v2] hv: kvp: Avoid reading past allocated blocks
> from KVP file
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Long Li [mailto:longli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
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> > To: KY Srinivasan <kys@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; Haiyang Zhang
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> > Cc: Paul Meyer <Paul.Meyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; Long Li
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> > Subject: [Revised PATCH v2] hv: kvp: Avoid reading past allocated blocks
> > from KVP file
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> > From: Paul Meyer <Paul.Meyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > While reading in more than one block (50) of KVP records, the allocation
> > goes per block, but the reads used the total number of allocated records
> > (without resetting the pointer/stream). This causes the records buffer to
> > overrun when the refresh reads more than one block over the previous
> > capacity (e.g. reading more than 100 KVP records whereas the in-memory
> > database was empty before).
> >
> > Fix this by reading the correct number of KVP records from file each time.
> >
> > Changes since v1:
> > 1. Properly wrapped comment texts.
> > 2. Added the 2nd Signed-off-by.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Paul Meyer <Paul.Meyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Long Li <longli@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Reviewed-by: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

I will take this patch.

K. Y