On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 11:39:52AM +0200, David Sterba wrote:
> On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 11:01:41AM -0700, Liu Bo wrote:
> > On Sat, May 14, 2016 at 06:30:52PM +0800, Qu Wenruo wrote:
> > > Hi Liu,
> > > 
> > > Thanks for your patch first.
> > > 
> > > On 05/14/2016 08:06 AM, Liu Bo wrote:
> > > > Thanks to fuzz testing, we can pass an invalid bytenr to extent buffer
> > > > via alloc_extent_buffer().  An unaligned eb can have more pages than it
> > > > should have, which ends up extent buffer's leak or some corrupted 
> > > > content
> > > > in extent buffer.
> > > > 
> > > > This adds a warning to let us quickly know what was happening.
> > > > 
> > > > Signed-off-by: Liu Bo <bo.li....@oracle.com>
> > > > ---
> > > >  fs/btrfs/extent_io.c | 4 ++++
> > > >  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
> > > > 
> > > > diff --git a/fs/btrfs/extent_io.c b/fs/btrfs/extent_io.c
> > > > index d247fc0..e601e0f 100644
> > > > --- a/fs/btrfs/extent_io.c
> > > > +++ b/fs/btrfs/extent_io.c
> > > > @@ -4868,6 +4868,10 @@ struct extent_buffer *alloc_extent_buffer(struct 
> > > > btrfs_fs_info *fs_info,
> > > >         int uptodate = 1;
> > > >         int ret;
> > > > 
> > > > +       WARN_ONCE(!IS_ALIGNED(start, fs_info->tree_root->sectorsize),
> > > > +                 KERN_WARNING "eb->start(%llu) is not aligned to 
> > > > root->sectorsize(%u)\n",
> > > > +                 start, fs_info->tree_root->sectorsize);
> > > > +
> > > 
> > > IMHO this is a quite big problem. As almost all other things rely on the
> > > assumption that extent buffer are at least sectorsize aligned.
> > 
> > It won't cause too much trouble as reading eb's page can prevent btrfs
> > using this eb.
> > 
> > > What about warning and returning NULL? WARN_ONCE() only won't info user
> > > quick enough.
> > 
> > I'm OK with warning, but I just realized that warning doesn't show which
> > filesystem has problems, so btrfs_crit and -EINVAL is preferable.
> 
> NULL means it's allocation error, so please convert it to IS_ERR and
> return more fine grained errors so we can distinguish the problems. An
> unaligned 'start' almost always means a corruption or other problem in
> the callers of alloc_extent_buffer().

OK, sounds good.

Thanks,

-liubo
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