On 4/4/18 9:45 PM, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Wed, 4 Apr 2018 18:25:16 -0700 Randy Dunlap <rdun...@infradead.org> wrote: > >> From: Randy Dunlap <rdun...@infradead.org> >> >> If the reiserfs mount option's journal name contains a '%' character, >> it can lead to a WARN_ONCE() in lib/vsprintf.c::format_decode(), >> saying: "Please remove unsupported %/ in format string." >> That's OK until panic_on_warn is set, at which point it's dead, Jim. >> >> To placate this situation, check the journal name string for a '%' >> character and return an error if one is found. Also print a warning >> (one that won't panic the kernel) about the invalid journal name (e.g.): >> >> reiserfs: journal device name is invalid: %/file0 >> >> (In this example, the caller app specified the journal device name as >> "%/file0".) >> > > Well, that is a valid filename and we should support it... > > Isn't the bug in journal_init_dev()?
Yep. That's exactly it. Acked-by: Jeff Mahoney <je...@suse.com> Thanks, -Jeff > --- a/fs/reiserfs/journal.c~a > +++ a/fs/reiserfs/journal.c > @@ -2643,7 +2643,7 @@ static int journal_init_dev(struct super > if (IS_ERR(journal->j_dev_bd)) { > result = PTR_ERR(journal->j_dev_bd); > journal->j_dev_bd = NULL; > - reiserfs_warning(super, > + reiserfs_warning(super, "sh-457", > "journal_init_dev: Cannot open '%s': %i", > jdev_name, result); > return result; > _ > > -- Jeff Mahoney SUSE Labs