On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 03:40:29AM -0700, Petros Angelatos wrote:
> When `btrfs filesystem label /foo bar` command is invoked, it will pass
> the buffer allocated in the argv array directly to set_label_mounted()
> and then to the BTRFS_IOC_SET_FSLABEL ioctl.
> 
> However, the kernel code handling the ioctl will always try to copy
> BTRFS_LABEL_SIZE bytes[1] from the userland pointer. Under certain
> conditions and when the label is small enough, the command will fail
> with:
> 
>     [root@localhost /]# btrfs filesystem label /mnt f
>     ERROR: unable to set label Bad address

Good catch, I was not aware of the hidden requirement.

> Fix this by making sure we pass a BTRFS_LABEL_SIZE sized buffer to the
> ioctl containing the desired label.
> 
> [1] 
> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/fs/btrfs/ioctl.c?id=refs/tags/v4.5#n5231
> 
> Signed-off-by: Petros Angelatos <petros...@gmail.com>

Applied, thanks.
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