Re: [PATCH] fs: sysv: Fix sysv_nblocks() returns wrong value

From: Al Viro
Date: Sat Dec 10 2022 - 14:13:10 EST


On Fri, Dec 09, 2022 at 06:04:48PM +0800, Chen Zhongjin wrote:
> sysv_nblocks() returns 'blocks' rather than 'res', which only counting
> the number of triple-indirect blocks and causing sysv_getattr() gets a
> wrong result.
>
> Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
> Signed-off-by: Chen Zhongjin <chenzhongjin@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> fs/sysv/itree.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/sysv/itree.c b/fs/sysv/itree.c
> index d4ec9bb97de9..3b8567564e7e 100644
> --- a/fs/sysv/itree.c
> +++ b/fs/sysv/itree.c
> @@ -438,7 +438,7 @@ static unsigned sysv_nblocks(struct super_block *s, loff_t size)
> res += blocks;
> direct = 1;
> }
> - return blocks;
> + return res;
> }
>
> int sysv_getattr(struct user_namespace *mnt_userns, const struct path *path,

Argh...

To quote historical tree:
commit 0fcd426de9d02175c9771ea19f972389eeba7688
Author: Andries E. Brouwer <andries.brouwer@xxxxxx>
Date: Sun Aug 22 00:07:46 2004 -0700

[PATCH] minix block usage counting fix

In 2.5.18 some minix-specific stuff was moved to the minix subdirectory
where it belonged. However, a typo crept in, causing inode disk usage
to be incorrectly reported. A few people have complained, but so far
not sufficiently loudly.

Signed-off-by: Andries Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@xxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxx>

diff --git a/fs/minix/itree_common.c b/fs/minix/itree_common.c
index f8e9bd831c90..5a4b51dbfcb3 100644
--- a/fs/minix/itree_common.c
+++ b/fs/minix/itree_common.c
@@ -358,5 +358,5 @@ static inline unsigned nblocks(loff_t size)
res += blocks;
direct = 1;
}
- return blocks;
+ return res;
}


This is obviously the sysvfs counterpart, not noticed back then and
not caught in 18 years since then...

Mea culpa - the original bug (both in minixfs and sysvfs) is mine and
I should've thought to look for sysvfs counterpart when minixfs fix
got posted.

Applied.