linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] make last_inode counter in new_inode 32-bit on kernels that offer x86 compatability

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Date:	Tue, 7 Nov 2006 18:56:01 +0100
From:	Jörn Engel <joern@...nheim.fh-wedel.de>
To:	Jeff Layton <jlayton@...hat.com>
Cc:	Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] make last_inode counter in new_inode 32-bit on kernels that offer x86 compatability

Things are getting more interesting.  simple_fill_super() looked like
a bug waiting to happen.  It is fairly hard to trigger, but still.
This should fix it, although in a fairly crude manner.

The other callers were save - it is hard to have the root inode
collide with anything existing.

Jörn

-- 
Good warriors cause others to come to them and do not go to others.
-- Sun Tzu


Signed-off-by: Jörn Engel <joern@...nheim.fh-wedel.de>
---

 fs/libfs.c |    2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

--- iunique/fs/libfs.c~iunique_libfs	2006-10-13 15:56:01.000000000 +0200
+++ iunique/fs/libfs.c	2006-11-07 18:54:21.000000000 +0100
@@ -381,6 +381,8 @@ int simple_fill_super(struct super_block
 	inode = new_inode(s);
 	if (!inode)
 		return -ENOMEM;
+	/* ino must not collide with any ino assigned in the loop below */
+	inode->i_ino = 0x8000000;
 	inode->i_mode = S_IFDIR | 0755;
 	inode->i_uid = inode->i_gid = 0;
 	inode->i_blksize = PAGE_CACHE_SIZE;
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