linux-kernel - [PATCH 4.8 42/85] vfs,mm: fix return value of read() at s

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Date:   Wed,  4 Jan 2017 21:47:27 +0100
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org,
        Joseph Salisbury <joseph.salisbury@...onical.com>,
        Wei Fang <fangwei1@...wei.com>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
        Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>,
        Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: [PATCH 4.8 42/85] vfs,mm: fix return value of read() at s_maxbytes

4.8-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>

commit d05c5f7ba164aed3db02fb188c26d0dd94f5455b upstream.

We truncated the possible read iterator to s_maxbytes in commit
c2a9737f45e2 ("vfs,mm: fix a dead loop in truncate_inode_pages_range()"),
but our end condition handling was wrong: it's not an error to try to
read at the end of the file.

Reading past the end should return EOF (0), not EINVAL.

See for example

  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1649342
  http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2016-12/msg00008.html

where a md5sum of a maximally sized file fails because the final read is
exactly at s_maxbytes.

Fixes: c2a9737f45e2 ("vfs,mm: fix a dead loop in truncate_inode_pages_range()")
Reported-by: Joseph Salisbury <joseph.salisbury@...onical.com>
Cc: Wei Fang <fangwei1@...wei.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

---
 mm/filemap.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/mm/filemap.c
+++ b/mm/filemap.c
@@ -1688,7 +1688,7 @@ static ssize_t do_generic_file_read(stru
 	int error = 0;
 
 	if (unlikely(*ppos >= inode->i_sb->s_maxbytes))
-		return -EINVAL;
+		return 0;
 	iov_iter_truncate(iter, inode->i_sb->s_maxbytes);
 
 	index = *ppos >> PAGE_SHIFT;