Re: [PATCH 18/19] ext4: Add example fsinfo information [ver #16]

Darrick J. Wong [off-list ref] wrote:

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+	memcpy(ctx->buffer, es->s_volume_name, sizeof(es->s_volume_name));

Shouldn't this be checking that ctx->buffer is large enough to hold
s_volume_name?

Well, the buffer is guaranteed to be 4KiB in size.

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+	return strlen(ctx->buffer);

s_volume_name is /not/ a null-terminated string if the label is 16
characters long.

And the buffer is precleared, so it's automatically NULL terminated.

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+#define FSINFO_ATTR_EXT4_TIMESTAMPS	0x400	/* Ext4 superblock timestamps */

I guess each filesystem gets ... 256 different attrs, and the third
nibble determines the namespace?

No.  Think of it as allocating namespace in 256-number blocks.  That means
there are 16 million of them.  If a filesystem uses up an entire block, it can
always allocate another one.  I don't think it likely that we'll get
sufficient filesystems to eat them all.

David