Re: lseek/llseek allows the negative offset

From: H . J . Lu (hjl@valinux.com)
Date: Sat Nov 18 2000 - 20:20:34 EST


On Sun, Nov 19, 2000 at 01:45:12AM +0100, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 07:25:42PM +0100, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> > I fixed it this way:
>
> fix is plain wrong, it's still possible to have lseek return -1 -2 -3 -4
> even when it should return -EINVAL.
>

Try this again 2.2.18pre21. It works for me.

-- 
H.J. Lu (hjl@valinux.com)
---
--- linux/fs/ext2/file.c.lseek	Sat Nov 18 17:18:49 2000
+++ linux/fs/ext2/file.c	Sat Nov 18 17:19:28 2000
@@ -120,6 +120,8 @@ static long long ext2_file_lseek(
 		case 1:
 			offset += file->f_pos;
 	}
+	if (offset < 0)
+		return -EINVAL;
 	if (((unsigned long long) offset >> 32) != 0) {
 #if BITS_PER_LONG < 64
 		return -EINVAL;
--- linux/fs/proc/mem.c.lseek	Tue Jan  4 10:12:23 2000
+++ linux/fs/proc/mem.c	Sat Nov 18 17:19:28 2000
@@ -196,14 +196,17 @@ static long long mem_lseek(struct file *
 {
 	switch (orig) {
 		case 0:
-			file->f_pos = offset;
-			return file->f_pos;
+			break;
 		case 1:
-			file->f_pos += offset;
-			return file->f_pos;
+			offset += file->f_pos;
+			break;
 		default:
 			return -EINVAL;
 	}
+	if (offset < 0)
+			return -EINVAL;
+	file->f_pos = offset;
+	return offset;
 }
 
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