Thread (81 messages) 81 messages, 5 authors, 2021-12-17

Re: [PATCH v3 57/68] afs: Fix afs_write_end() to handle len > page size

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: 2021-12-16 16:28:12
Also in: ceph-devel, linux-cifs, linux-fsdevel, lkml

On Thu, Dec 16, 2021 at 8:22 AM David Howells [off-list ref] wrote:
It is possible for the len argument to afs_write_end() to overrun the end
of the page (len is used to key the size of the page in afs_write_start()
when compound pages become a regular thing).
This smells like a bug in the caller.

It's just insane to call "write_end()" with a range that doesn't
actually fit in the page provided.

Exactly how does that happen, and why should AFS deal with it, not
whoever called write_end()?

              Linus
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