linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 5/6] cachefiles: Fix signed/unsigned mixup

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Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2024 21:03:39 +0800
From: Gao Xiang <hsiangkao@...ux.alibaba.com>
To: David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
 Christian Brauner <christian@...uner.io>, Jeff Layton <jlayton@...nel.org>,
 Dominique Martinet <asmadeus@...ewreck.org>
Cc: Steve French <smfrench@...il.com>, Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
 Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@...istor.com>, Paulo Alcantara <pc@...guebit.com>,
 Shyam Prasad N <sprasad@...rosoft.com>, Tom Talpey <tom@...pey.com>,
 Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@...nel.org>, Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@...il.com>,
 linux-cachefs@...hat.com, linux-afs@...ts.infradead.org,
 linux-cifs@...r.kernel.org, linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org,
 ceph-devel@...r.kernel.org, v9fs@...ts.linux.dev,
 linux-erofs@...ts.ozlabs.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
 linux-mm@...ck.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
 Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>, kernel test robot <lkp@...el.com>,
 Yiqun Leng <yqleng@...ux.alibaba.com>, Jia Zhu <zhujia.zj@...edance.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/6] cachefiles: Fix signed/unsigned mixup



On 2024/1/9 19:20, David Howells wrote:
> In __cachefiles_prepare_write(), the start and pos variables were made
> unsigned 64-bit so that the casts in the checking could be got rid of -
> which should be fine since absolute file offsets can't be negative, except
> that an error code may be obtained from vfs_llseek(), which *would* be
> negative.  This breaks the error check.
> 
> Fix this for now by reverting pos and start to be signed and putting back
> the casts.  Unfortunately, the error value checks cannot be replaced with
> IS_ERR_VALUE() as long might be 32-bits.
> 
> Fixes: 7097c96411d2 ("cachefiles: Fix __cachefiles_prepare_write()")
> Reported-by: Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>
> Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@...el.com>
> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202401071152.DbKqMQMu-lkp@intel.com/
> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
> Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>
> cc: Gao Xiang <hsiangkao@...ux.alibaba.com>
> cc: Yiqun Leng <yqleng@...ux.alibaba.com>
> cc: Jia Zhu <zhujia.zj@...edance.com>
> cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@...nel.org>
> cc: linux-cachefs@...hat.com
> cc: linux-erofs@...ts.ozlabs.org
> cc: linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
> cc: linux-mm@...ck.org

It looks good to me,
Reviewed-by: Gao Xiang <hsiangkao@...ux.alibaba.com>

Thanks,
Gao Xiang