linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] hfsplus: Refuse to mount volumes larger than 2TB

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Date:	Sun, 11 Oct 2009 18:01:30 +0100
From:	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Eric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@....de>,
	Roman Zippel <zippel@...ux-m68k.org>, 550010@...s.debian.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] hfsplus: Refuse to mount volumes larger than 2TB

On Sun, 2009-10-11 at 00:51 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
[...]
> > --- a/fs/hfsplus/wrapper.c
> > +++ b/fs/hfsplus/wrapper.c
> > @@ -99,6 +99,10 @@
> >  
> >  	if (hfsplus_get_last_session(sb, &part_start, &part_size))
> >  		return -EINVAL;
> > +	if (part_start + part_size > 0x100000000) {
> > +		pr_err("hfs: volumes larger than 2TB are not supported yet\n");
> > +		return -EINVAL;
> > +	}
> 
> part_start and part_size are sector_t.  This code will do weird overflow
> things when sector_t is 32-bit.

Sorry, I forgot CONFIG_LBD is still optional.

> Also 32-bit compilers will get upset at the excessively large hex constant.
[...]

Good point.

Ben.

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