linux-ext4 - [patch] e4defrag: relevant file fragmentation: fix arithmetic error as non-root

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Date:	Sun, 29 Aug 2010 17:01:25 +0200
From:	Andreas Rid <andreas@...-net.de>
To:	k-mio@...jp.nec.com
CC:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [patch] e4defrag: relevant file fragmentation: fix arithmetic error
 as non-root

hi Kazuya Mio,

I found a bug on your patch "[RFC][PATCH V2 5/5] e4defrag: add solving relevant file fragmentation mode"

The variable "blocks_per_group" is only initialized as root cause of restrict access to the super-block.
As a non root user this cause an arithmetic error in function relevant_balloc.

diff --git a/misc/e4defrag.c b/misc/e4defrag.c
index 3f1df05..6022758 100644
--- a/misc/e4defrag.c
+++ b/misc/e4defrag.c
@@ -1662,14 +1662,15 @@ static int relevant_balloc(const char *file, int donor_fd,
 
 		/* Allocating  all blocks in an extent group */
 		while (rest > 0) {
-			int grp_offset;
-			grp_offset = (pi.pi_pstart - first_data_block) % bpg;
-
 			pi.pi_len = rest;
-			if ((grp_offset + pi.pi_len) > bpg)
-				pi.pi_len = bpg - grp_offset;
-			if ((pi.pi_pstart + pi.pi_len) > fs_blocks_count)
-				pi.pi_len = fs_blocks_count - pi.pi_pstart;
+			if (current_uid == ROOT_UID) {
+				int grp_offset;
+				grp_offset = (pi.pi_pstart - first_data_block) % bpg;
+				if ((grp_offset + pi.pi_len) > bpg)
+					pi.pi_len = bpg - grp_offset;
+				if ((pi.pi_pstart + pi.pi_len) > fs_blocks_count)
+					pi.pi_len = fs_blocks_count - pi.pi_pstart;
+			}
 			pi.pi_len = min(pi.pi_len, PREALLOC_MAX_BLK);
 
 			ret = ioctl(donor_fd, EXT4_IOC_CONTROL_PA, &pi);
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