Thread (5 messages) 5 messages, 2 authors, 2017-05-20
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[PATCH 2/2] ext4: Fix off-by-in in loop termination in ext4_find_unwritten_pgoff()

From: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Date: 2017-05-18 10:49:54
Subsystem: ext4 file system, filesystems (vfs and infrastructure), the rest · Maintainers: "Theodore Ts'o", Alexander Viro, Christian Brauner, Linus Torvalds

There is an off-by-one error in loop termination conditions in
ext4_find_unwritten_pgoff() since 'end' may index a page beyond end of
desired range if 'endoff' is page aligned. It doesn't have any visible
effects but still it is good to fix it.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
---
 fs/ext4/file.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/fs/ext4/file.c b/fs/ext4/file.c
index bbea2dccd584..2b00bf84c05b 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/file.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/file.c
@@ -474,7 +474,7 @@ static int ext4_find_unwritten_pgoff(struct inode *inode,
 	endoff = (loff_t)end_blk << blkbits;
 
 	index = startoff >> PAGE_SHIFT;
-	end = endoff >> PAGE_SHIFT;
+	end = (endoff - 1) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
 
 	pagevec_init(&pvec, 0);
 	do {
-- 
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