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Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2007 15:46:12 -0600
From: Anton Blanchard <anton@...ba.org>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>,
Roman Zippel <zippel@...ux-m68k.org>,
David Brown <dmlb2000@...il.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
gdb@...rceware.org
Subject: Re: PAGE_SIZE Availability Inconsistency
Hi,
> Our current swap layout has issues with variable page size kernels.
> Instead of using the page size at runtime, base it on the minimum page
> size the architecture supports.
A hacked up patch to userspace utilities to test the kernel patch. BTW
It looks like there are some real bugs here:
int pagesize = getpagesize();
int rd;
char buf[32768];
rd = pagesize;
if (rd < 8192)
rd = 8192;
if (rd > sizeof(buf))
rd = sizeof(buf);
if (lseek(fd, 0, SEEK_SET) != 0
|| read(fd, buf, rd) != rd)
goto io_error;
if (may_be_swap(buf+pagesize) ||
may_be_swap(buf+4096) || may_be_swap(buf+8192))
type = "swap";
If page size == 64kB wont we read past the end of buf?
Anton
Index: util-linux-2.12r/disk-utils/mkswap.c
===================================================================
--- util-linux-2.12r.orig/disk-utils/mkswap.c 2007-03-08 14:52:53.000000000 -0600
+++ util-linux-2.12r/disk-utils/mkswap.c 2007-03-08 14:58:09.000000000 -0600
@@ -169,7 +158,11 @@
#ifdef PAGE_SIZE
defined_pagesize = PAGE_SIZE;
#endif
+#ifdef __powerpc__
+ kernel_pagesize = 4096;
+#else
kernel_pagesize = getpagesize();
+#endif
pagesize = kernel_pagesize;
if (user_pagesize) {
Index: util-linux-2.12r/mount/get_label_uuid.c
===================================================================
--- util-linux-2.12r.orig/mount/get_label_uuid.c 2007-03-08 14:52:53.000000000 -0600
+++ util-linux-2.12r/mount/get_label_uuid.c 2007-03-08 14:58:09.000000000 -0600
@@ -79,7 +79,11 @@
static int
is_v1_swap_partition(int fd, char **label, char *uuid) {
+#ifdef __powerpc__
+ int n = 4096;
+#else
int n = getpagesize();
+#endif
char *buf = xmalloc(n);
struct swap_header_v1_2 *p = (struct swap_header_v1_2 *) buf;
Index: util-linux-2.12r/mount/mount_guess_fstype.c
===================================================================
--- util-linux-2.12r.orig/mount/mount_guess_fstype.c 2007-03-08 14:52:53.000000000 -0600
+++ util-linux-2.12r/mount/mount_guess_fstype.c 2007-03-08 14:54:25.000000000 -0600
@@ -462,7 +462,11 @@
if (!type) {
/* perhaps the user tries to mount the swap space
on a new disk; warn her before she does mke2fs on it */
+#ifdef __powerpc__
+ int pagesize = 4096;
+#else
int pagesize = getpagesize();
+#endif
int rd;
char buf[32768];
Index: util-linux-2.12r/rescuept/rescuept.c
===================================================================
--- util-linux-2.12r.orig/rescuept/rescuept.c 2007-03-08 14:52:53.000000000 -0600
+++ util-linux-2.12r/rescuept/rescuept.c 2007-03-08 14:55:49.000000000 -0600
@@ -510,7 +510,11 @@
size = s.st_size / 512;
}
+#ifdef __powerpc__
+ pagesize = 4096;
+#else
pagesize = getpagesize();
+#endif
if (pagesize <= 0)
pagesize = 4096;
else if (pagesize > MAXPAGESZ) {
-
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