Re: [PATCH] fsnotify: preserve 64-bit pre-content ranges
From: Jan Kara
Date: Wed Oct 21 2026 - 11:58:24 EST
On Thu 15-10-26 20:57:01, Avi Weiss wrote:
> vfs_fallocate() and remap_verify_area() pass 64-bit lengths to
> fsnotify_file_area_perm(), which truncates them to size_t on
> 32-bit systems.
>
> Use 64 bit (unsigned) types throughout the entire pre-content
> notification chain to keep the full range. The userspace range
> field is already 64-bits.
>
> Fixes: 9740d17162de ("fsnotify: pass optional file access range in pre-content event")
> Signed-off-by: Avi Weiss <thnkslprpt@xxxxxxxxx>
Thanks. I've added the patch to my tree.
Honza
> ---
> Tested on a 32-bit x86 kernel in QEMU with ext4 and
> FAN_CLASS_PRE_CONTENT / FAN_PRE_ACCESS with regular
> (4KB), boundary, near-boundary, and beyond boundary counts.
>
> requested count before with the fix
> 4096 4096 4096
> 4294967295 0 4294967296
> 4294967296 0 4294967296
> 4294971392 4096 4294971392
>
> diff --git a/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify.h b/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify.h
> index 3710543dbf827..225919d7347bf 100644
> --- a/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify.h
> +++ b/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify.h
> @@ -441,7 +441,7 @@ struct fanotify_perm_event {
> struct fanotify_event fae;
> struct path path;
> loff_t pos; /* FANOTIFY_NO_RANGE if unavailable */
> - size_t count;
> + u64 count;
> u32 response; /* userspace answer to the event */
> unsigned short state; /* state of the event */
> unsigned short watchdog_cnt; /* already scanned by watchdog? */
> diff --git a/fs/notify/fsnotify.c b/fs/notify/fsnotify.c
> index 7e2f330fd2837..8657bb94dfa8b 100644
> --- a/fs/notify/fsnotify.c
> +++ b/fs/notify/fsnotify.c
> @@ -157,7 +157,7 @@ static inline __u32 fsnotify_object_watched(struct inode *inode, __u32 mnt_mask,
>
> /* Report pre-content event with optional range info */
> int fsnotify_pre_content(const struct path *path, const loff_t *ppos,
> - size_t count)
> + u64 count)
> {
> struct file_range range;
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/fsnotify.h b/include/linux/fsnotify.h
> index bda798bc67bc5..a4a29b3650080 100644
> --- a/include/linux/fsnotify.h
> +++ b/include/linux/fsnotify.h
> @@ -135,7 +135,7 @@ int fsnotify_open_perm_and_set_mode(struct file *file);
> * fsnotify_file_area_perm - permission hook before access to file range
> */
> static inline int fsnotify_file_area_perm(struct file *file, int perm_mask,
> - const loff_t *ppos, size_t count)
> + const loff_t *ppos, u64 count)
> {
> /*
> * filesystem may be modified in the context of permission events
> @@ -213,7 +213,7 @@ static inline int fsnotify_open_perm_and_set_mode(struct file *file)
> }
>
> static inline int fsnotify_file_area_perm(struct file *file, int perm_mask,
> - const loff_t *ppos, size_t count)
> + const loff_t *ppos, u64 count)
> {
> return 0;
> }
> diff --git a/include/linux/fsnotify_backend.h b/include/linux/fsnotify_backend.h
> index 618eed4d6d724..a25ae4ed879c7 100644
> --- a/include/linux/fsnotify_backend.h
> +++ b/include/linux/fsnotify_backend.h
> @@ -323,7 +323,7 @@ struct fs_error_report {
> struct file_range {
> const struct path *path;
> loff_t pos;
> - size_t count;
> + u64 count;
> };
>
> static inline const struct path *file_range_path(const struct file_range *range)
> @@ -945,12 +945,12 @@ static inline void fsnotify_init_event(struct fsnotify_event *event)
> INIT_LIST_HEAD(&event->list);
> }
> int fsnotify_pre_content(const struct path *path, const loff_t *ppos,
> - size_t count);
> + u64 count);
>
> #else
>
> static inline int fsnotify_pre_content(const struct path *path,
> - const loff_t *ppos, size_t count)
> + const loff_t *ppos, u64 count)
> {
> return 0;
> }
>
> base-commit: 045958acaa75205b31578cb22c4345e28dd2e4bf
> --
> 2.43.0
>
--
Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxxx>
SUSE Labs, CR