From c2d331797b18cedebacc294c173e3855de81b4d0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Anton Altaparmakov Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2014 01:53:03 +0100 Subject: Fix nasty 32-bit overflow bug in buffer i/o code. commit f2d5a94436cc7cc0221b9a81bba2276a25187dd3 upstream. On 32-bit architectures, the legacy buffer_head functions are not always handling the sector number with the proper 64-bit types, and will thus fail on 4TB+ disks. Any code that uses __getblk() (and thus bread(), breadahead(), sb_bread(), sb_breadahead(), sb_getblk()), and calls it using a 64-bit block on a 32-bit arch (where "long" is 32-bit) causes an inifinite loop in __getblk_slow() with an infinite stream of errors logged to dmesg like this: __find_get_block_slow() failed. block=6740375944, b_blocknr=2445408648 b_state=0x00000020, b_size=512 device sda1 blocksize: 512 Note how in hex block is 0x191C1F988 and b_blocknr is 0x91C1F988 i.e. the top 32-bits are missing (in this case the 0x1 at the top). This is because grow_dev_page() is broken and has a 32-bit overflow due to shifting the page index value (a pgoff_t - which is just 32 bits on 32-bit architectures) left-shifted as the block number. But the top bits to get lost as the pgoff_t is not type cast to sector_t / 64-bit before the shift. This patch fixes this issue by type casting "index" to sector_t before doing the left shift. Note this is not a theoretical bug but has been seen in the field on a 4TiB hard drive with logical sector size 512 bytes. This patch has been verified to fix the infinite loop problem on 3.17-rc5 kernel using a 4TB disk image mounted using "-o loop". Without this patch doing a "find /nt" where /nt is an NTFS volume causes the inifinite loop 100% reproducibly whilst with the patch it works fine as expected. Signed-off-by: Anton Altaparmakov Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- fs/buffer.c | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'fs/buffer.c') diff --git a/fs/buffer.c b/fs/buffer.c index 75964d734444..10fca21ee8aa 100644 --- a/fs/buffer.c +++ b/fs/buffer.c @@ -985,7 +985,8 @@ grow_dev_page(struct block_device *bdev, sector_t block, bh = page_buffers(page); if (bh->b_size == size) { end_block = init_page_buffers(page, bdev, - index << sizebits, size); + (sector_t)index << sizebits, + size); goto done; } if (!try_to_free_buffers(page)) @@ -1006,7 +1007,8 @@ grow_dev_page(struct block_device *bdev, sector_t block, */ spin_lock(&inode->i_mapping->private_lock); link_dev_buffers(page, bh); - end_block = init_page_buffers(page, bdev, index << sizebits, size); + end_block = init_page_buffers(page, bdev, (sector_t)index << sizebits, + size); spin_unlock(&inode->i_mapping->private_lock); done: ret = (block < end_block) ? 1 : -ENXIO; -- cgit v1.2.3