linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] fs/befs/linuxvfs.c: need signed cast for variable 'block'

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Message-ID: <20131102162744.GJ13318@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Date:	Sat, 2 Nov 2013 16:27:45 +0000
From:	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
To:	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:	Chen Gang <gang.chen@...anux.com>,
	Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@...onical.com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fs/befs/linuxvfs.c: need signed cast for variable 'block'

On Sat, Nov 02, 2013 at 08:44:46AM -0700, Greg KH wrote:

> > Oh, for me, it is not suitable to move a file system sub-directory to
> > "drivers/*/" sub-directory. And I can not find any sub-directory like
> > 'staging' under "fs" sub-directory, either.
> > 
> > Do we have any sub-directory like "staging" in "fs" sub-directory? if
> > no, do we have to create it or have to use another ways instead of?
> 
> Just move the filesystem to drivers/staging/befs.

Actually, having read through that code...  It's not too scary; r/w
support would've been much more hairy, but this is just r/o.  We
probably don't need to move that sucker at all.

As for befs_get_block(), I'd suggest
	* taking the range checks for block number into its ->bmap()
(just check against the file size and return 0 if it doesn't fit)
	* turning the check for create != 0 into BUG_ON(create)
	* making the befs_fblock2brun() failure quiet - the sucker
will complain itself, just return that -EFBIG and be done with that.
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