linux-ext4 - [PATCH] btrfs: Prevent creation of files larger than RLIMIT

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Date:	Tue, 4 May 2010 11:14:57 +0530
From:	Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@...e.de>
To:	Chris Mason <chris.mason@...cle.com>
Cc:	"Amit K. Arora" <aarora@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, coly.li@...e.de,
	Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>,
	Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>,
	Andreas Dilger <adilger@....com>, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
	Eelis <opensuse.org@...tacts.eelis.net>,
	Amit Arora <aarora@...ibm.com>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	linux-btrfs@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] btrfs: Prevent creation of files larger than RLIMIT_FSIZE using fallocate

Prevent creation of files larger than RLIMIT_FSIZE using fallocate.

Currently using posix_fallocate one can bypass an RLIMIT_FSIZE limit
and create a file larger than the limit. Add a check for that.


Signed-off-by: Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@...e.de>

---

diff --git a/fs/btrfs/inode.c b/fs/btrfs/inode.c
index 2bfdc64..a1d8fbc 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/inode.c
@@ -5829,6 +5829,11 @@ static long btrfs_fallocate(struct inode *inode, int mode,
 	btrfs_wait_ordered_range(inode, alloc_start, alloc_end - alloc_start);
 
 	mutex_lock(&inode->i_mutex);
+
+	ret = inode_newsize_ok(inode, (offset + len));
+	if (ret)
+		goto out;
+
 	if (alloc_start > inode->i_size) {
 		ret = btrfs_cont_expand(inode, alloc_start);
 		if (ret)
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