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authorJeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>2009-09-18 13:05:53 -0700
committerAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2009-09-24 07:47:33 -0400
commit42cb56ae2ab67390da34906b27bedc3f2ff1393b (patch)
treedb4a6a4871feeb153f924a80a79b7790e4e2c90e /kernel/utsname.c
parent5aa98b706e83da4cde4172c890d6e815915536a0 (diff)
vfs: change sb->s_maxbytes to a loff_t
sb->s_maxbytes is supposed to indicate the maximum size of a file that can exist on the filesystem. It's declared as an unsigned long long. Even if a filesystem has no inherent limit that prevents it from using every bit in that unsigned long long, it's still problematic to set it to anything larger than MAX_LFS_FILESIZE. There are places in the kernel that cast s_maxbytes to a signed value. If it's set too large then this cast makes it a negative number and generally breaks the comparison. Change s_maxbytes to be loff_t instead. That should help eliminate the temptation to set it too large by making it a signed value. Also, add a warning for couple of releases to help catch filesystems that set s_maxbytes too large. Eventually we can either convert this to a BUG() or just remove it and in the hope that no one will get it wrong now that it's a signed value. Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Robert Love <rlove@google.com> Cc: Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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