Re: [PATCH 1/5] cachefiles: Fix __cachefiles_prepare_write()

[David Howells]

Simon Horman <horms@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I realise these patches have been accepted, but I have a minor nit:
> pos is now unsigned, and so cannot be less than zero.

Good point.  How about the attached patch.  Whilst I would prefer to use
unsigned long long to avoid the casts, it might 

David
---
cachefiles: Fix signed/unsigned mixup

In __cachefiles_prepare_write(), the start and pos variables were made
unsigned 64-bit so that the casts in the checking could be got rid of -
which should be fine since absolute file offsets can't be negative, except
that an error code may be obtained from vfs_llseek(), which *would* be
negative.  This breaks the error check.

Fix this for now by reverting pos and start to be signed and putting back
the casts.  Unfortunately, the error value checks cannot be replaced with
IS_ERR_VALUE() as long might be 32-bits.

Fixes: 7097c96411d2 ("cachefiles: Fix __cachefiles_prepare_write()")
Reported-by: Simon Horman <horms@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202401071152.DbKqMQMu-lkp@xxxxxxxxx/
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx>
cc: Gao Xiang <hsiangkao@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
cc: Yiqun Leng <yqleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
cc: Jia Zhu <zhujia.zj@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx>
cc: linux-cachefs@xxxxxxxxxx
cc: linux-erofs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
cc: linux-fsdevel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
cc: linux-mm@xxxxxxxxx
---
 fs/cachefiles/io.c |    6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/cachefiles/io.c b/fs/cachefiles/io.c
index 3eec26967437..9a2cb2868e90 100644
--- a/fs/cachefiles/io.c
+++ b/fs/cachefiles/io.c
@@ -522,7 +522,7 @@ int __cachefiles_prepare_write(struct cachefiles_object *object,
 			       bool no_space_allocated_yet)
 {
 	struct cachefiles_cache *cache = object->volume->cache;
-	unsigned long long start = *_start, pos;
+	loff_t start = *_start, pos;
 	size_t len = *_len;
 	int ret;
 
@@ -556,7 +556,7 @@ int __cachefiles_prepare_write(struct cachefiles_object *object,
 					  cachefiles_trace_seek_error);
 		return pos;
 	}
-	if (pos >= start + *_len)
+	if ((u64)pos >= (u64)start + *_len)
 		goto check_space; /* Unallocated region */
 
 	/* We have a block that's at least partially filled - if we're low on
@@ -575,7 +575,7 @@ int __cachefiles_prepare_write(struct cachefiles_object *object,
 					  cachefiles_trace_seek_error);
 		return pos;
 	}
-	if (pos >= start + *_len)
+	if ((u64)pos >= (u64)start + *_len)
 		return 0; /* Fully allocated */
 
 	/* Partially allocated, but insufficient space: cull. */