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SubjectRe: [PATCH] mm: adjust max read count in generic_file_buffered_read()
On Mon, 6 Aug 2018 12:22:03 +0200 Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> wrote:

> On Fri 20-07-18 16:14:29, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Thu, 19 Jul 2018 10:58:12 +0200 Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> wrote:
> >
> > > On Thu 19-07-18 16:17:26, Chengguang Xu wrote:
> > > > When we try to truncate read count in generic_file_buffered_read(),
> > > > should deliver (sb->s_maxbytes - offset) as maximum count not
> > > > sb->s_maxbytes itself.
> > > >
> > > > Signed-off-by: Chengguang Xu <cgxu519@gmx.com>
> > >
> > > Looks good to me. You can add:
> > >
> > > Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
> >
> > Yup.
> >
> > What are the runtime effects of this bug?
>
> Good question. I think ->readpage() could be called for index beyond
> maximum file size supported by the filesystem leading to weird filesystem
> behavior due to overflows in internal calculations.
>

Sure. But is it possible for userspace to trigger this behaviour?
Possibly all callers have already sanitized the arguments by this stage
in which case the statement is arguably redundant.

I guess I'll put a cc:stable on it and send it in for 4.19-rc1, so we
get a bit more time to poke at it. But we should have a better
understanding of the userspace impact.

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