linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5 5/8] fat: restructure export

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Date:	Wed, 05 Dec 2012 21:11:22 +0900
From:	OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@...l.parknet.co.jp>
To:	Namjae Jeon <linkinjeon@...il.com>
Cc:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Namjae Jeon <namjae.jeon@...sung.com>,
	Ravishankar N <ravi.n1@...sung.com>,
	Amit Sahrawat <a.sahrawat@...sung.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 5/8] fat: restructure export_operations

Namjae Jeon <linkinjeon@...il.com> writes:

>> I can understand what is doing. I'm asking why there is difference.
>>
>> 1) generic_fh_to_dentry() allows (*_PARENT && fh_len == 2).
>> 2) fat_fh_to_dentry_nostale() doesn't allows (*_PARENT && fh_len == 3).
>>
>> Why does logic has difference?
>
> When we consider the generic routine of encode_fh() and the structure ‘fid’
>
> struct fid {
>       struct {
>             u32 ino;
>             u32 gen;
>             u32 parent_ino;
>             u32 parent_gen;
>       } i32;
> };
>
> fh_len= 2(without parent)
> fh_len=4(with parent)
>
> Condition checking in export_encode_fh()
> {
>
>    if (parent && (len < 4)) {
>                 *max_len = 4;
>                 return FILEID_INVALID;
>         } else if (len < 2) {
>                 *max_len = 2;
>                 return FILEID_INVALID;
>         }
>         ...
>                 len = 2;
>         ...
>                 if (parent) {
> ..
>                                 len = 4;
>                                 type = FILEID_INO32_GEN_PARENT;
>                 }
> …
> }
>
> The logic does take care of altering the length for the ‘2’ cases
> with/without parent.
> So, while encoding -> the care has been taken for length checking but
> while decoding(generic_fh_to_dentry) the length check is not put in
> place.
> I think it should be done in the generic routine also.
>
> It should be:
> if ((fh_len != 2 && fh_len != 4) ||
>                 (fh_type != FILEID_INO32_GEN && fh_type !=
> FILEID_INO32_GEN_PARENT))
>     return NULL;
>
> Please share your opinion.

I know encode_fh(). But NFS is network protocol, and network can input
any data, and I guess the userland interface (open_by_handle()?) can be
any too.

And generic_fh_to_dentry()'s input verify choose to check the minimum
length only. But your logic choose the exact length.

I think the both is sane and correct. But I wonder why did you changed it.
-- 
OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@...l.parknet.co.jp>
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