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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/4] configfs: Fix writing at a non-zero offset
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On 7/27/21 12:27 AM, Bodo Stroesser wrote:
> What I meant is, that changing the source code in such a way, that
> writing a buffer in multiple writes works in general, could cause
> trouble in case userspace uses this.
>
> But for special syscall sequences your changes still change the result
> on existing configfs files. Example:
>
> 1) userspace program opens qfull_time_out
> 2) userspace program writes "90", count=2 to set timeout to 90 sec
> 3) userspace again wants to change timeout, so it writes "55", count=2
>
> Before the changes we end up with timeout being 55 seconds. After the
> change - due to data gathering - we finally have timeout 9055 seconds.

Hi Bodo,

How about replacing patches 1 and 2 from this series with the patch below?
Do you agree that this patch is sufficient to restore the behavior from
kernel v5.13 and before?

Thanks,

Bart.

Subject: [PATCH 1/3] configfs: Restore the kernel v5.13 text attribute write behavior

Instead of writing at the offset specified by the write() system call,
always write at offset zero.

Cc: Bodo Stroesser <bostroesser@gmail.com>
Cc: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Cc: Yanko Kaneti <yaneti@declera.com>
Cc: Brendan Higgins <brendanhiggins@google.com>
Reported-by: Bodo Stroesser <bostroesser@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
---
fs/configfs/file.c | 20 ++++++++------------
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/configfs/file.c b/fs/configfs/file.c
index 5a0be9985bae..8adf6250b207 100644
--- a/fs/configfs/file.c
+++ b/fs/configfs/file.c
@@ -177,12 +177,11 @@ static ssize_t configfs_bin_read_iter(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter *to)
return retval;
}

-/* Fill [buffer, buffer + pos) with data coming from @from. */
-static int fill_write_buffer(struct configfs_buffer *buffer, loff_t pos,
+/* Fill @buffer with data coming from @from. */
+static int fill_write_buffer(struct configfs_buffer *buffer,
struct iov_iter *from)
{
- loff_t to_copy;
- int copied;
+ int to_copy, copied;
u8 *to;

if (!buffer->page)
@@ -190,11 +189,8 @@ static int fill_write_buffer(struct configfs_buffer *buffer, loff_t pos,
if (!buffer->page)
return -ENOMEM;

- to_copy = SIMPLE_ATTR_SIZE - 1 - pos;
- if (to_copy <= 0)
- return 0;
- to = buffer->page + pos;
- copied = copy_from_iter(to, to_copy, from);
+ to = buffer->page;
+ copied = copy_from_iter(to, SIMPLE_ATTR_SIZE - 1, from);
buffer->needs_read_fill = 1;
/* if buf is assumed to contain a string, terminate it by \0,
* so e.g. sscanf() can scan the string easily */
@@ -227,14 +223,14 @@ static ssize_t configfs_write_iter(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter *from)
{
struct file *file = iocb->ki_filp;
struct configfs_buffer *buffer = file->private_data;
- ssize_t len;
+ int len;

mutex_lock(&buffer->mutex);
- len = fill_write_buffer(buffer, iocb->ki_pos, from);
+ len = fill_write_buffer(buffer, from);
if (len > 0)
len = flush_write_buffer(file, buffer, len);
if (len > 0)
- iocb->ki_pos += len;
+ iocb->ki_pos = len;
mutex_unlock(&buffer->mutex);
return len;
}
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