linux-kernel - [PATCH 7/8] mm/swap: check swapfile blocksize greater than PAGE

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Message-id: <000801cf1b47$3fcab170$bf601450$%yang@samsung.com>
Date:	Mon, 27 Jan 2014 18:03:04 +0800
From:	Weijie Yang <weijie.yang@...sung.com>
To:	hughd@...gle.com
Cc:	'Andrew Morton' <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	'Minchan Kim' <minchan@...nel.org>, shli@...nel.org,
	'Bob Liu' <bob.liu@...cle.com>, weijie.yang.kh@...il.com,
	'Heesub Shin' <heesub.shin@...sung.com>, mquzik@...hat.com,
	'Linux-MM' <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	'linux-kernel' <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 7/8] mm/swap: check swapfile blocksize greater than PAGE_SIZE

If S_ISREG swapfile's blocksize > PAGE_SIZE, it is not suitable to be
a swapfile, because swap slot is fixed to PAGE_SIZE.

This patch check this situation and return -EINVAL if it happens.

Signed-off-by: Weijie Yang <weijie.yang@...sung.com>
---
 mm/page_io.c |    2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/mm/page_io.c b/mm/page_io.c
index 7247be6..3d9bd12 100644
--- a/mm/page_io.c
+++ b/mm/page_io.c
@@ -150,6 +150,8 @@ int generic_swapfile_activate(struct swap_info_struct *sis,
 	int ret;
 
 	blkbits = inode->i_blkbits;
+	if(blkbits > PAGE_SHIFT)
+		return -EINVAL;
 	blocks_per_page = PAGE_SIZE >> blkbits;
 
 	/*
-- 
1.7.10.4


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