Re: [PATCH v3] f2fs: fix potential .flags overflow on 32bit architecture

[Joe Perches]

On Mon, 2020-03-23 at 09:25 +0800, Chao Yu wrote:
> f2fs_inode_info.flags is unsigned long variable, it has 32 bits
> in 32bit architecture, since we introduced FI_MMAP_FILE flag
> when we support data compression, we may access memory cross
> the border of .flags field, corrupting .i_sem field, result in
> below deadlock.
> 
> To fix this issue, let's expand .flags as an array to grab enough
> space to store new flags.
[]
> diff --git a/fs/f2fs/f2fs.h b/fs/f2fs/f2fs.h
[]
> @@ -2586,22 +2590,28 @@ static inline void __mark_inode_dirty_flag(struct inode *inode,
>  	}
>  }
>  
> +static inline void __set_inode_flag(struct inode *inode, int flag)
> +{
> +	test_and_set_bit(flag % BITS_PER_LONG,
> +			&F2FS_I(inode)->flags[BIT_WORD(flag)]);

I believe this should just use

	test_and_set_bit(flag, F2FS_I(inode)->flags);

>  static inline int is_inode_flag_set(struct inode *inode, int flag)
>  {
> -	return test_bit(flag, &F2FS_I(inode)->flags);
> +	return test_bit(flag % BITS_PER_LONG,
> +				&F2FS_I(inode)->flags[BIT_WORD(flag)]);

here too.

	test_bit(flag, F2FS_I(inode)->flags);

>  static inline void clear_inode_flag(struct inode *inode, int flag)
>  {
> -	if (test_bit(flag, &F2FS_I(inode)->flags))
> -		clear_bit(flag, &F2FS_I(inode)->flags);
> +	test_and_clear_bit(flag % BITS_PER_LONG,
> +				&F2FS_I(inode)->flags[BIT_WORD(flag)]);

and here.

I also don't know why these functions are used at all.