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    ext4: fix off-by-one errors in fast-commit block filling · 48a6a66d
    Eric Biggers 提交于
    Due to several different off-by-one errors, or perhaps due to a late
    change in design that wasn't fully reflected in the code that was
    actually merged, there are several very strange constraints on how
    fast-commit blocks are filled with tlv entries:
    
    - tlvs must start at least 10 bytes before the end of the block, even
      though the minimum tlv length is 8.  Otherwise, the replay code will
      ignore them.  (BUG: ext4_fc_reserve_space() could violate this
      requirement if called with a len of blocksize - 9 or blocksize - 8.
      Fortunately, this doesn't seem to happen currently.)
    
    - tlvs must end at least 1 byte before the end of the block.  Otherwise
      the replay code will consider them to be invalid.  This quirk
      contributed to a bug (fixed by an earlier commit) where uninitialized
      memory was being leaked to disk in the last byte of blocks.
    
    Also, strangely these constraints don't apply to the replay code in
    e2fsprogs, which will accept any tlvs in the blocks (with no bounds
    checks at all, but that is a separate issue...).
    
    Given that this all seems to be a bug, let's fix it by just filling
    blocks with tlv entries in the natural way.
    
    Note that old kernels will be unable to replay fast-commit journals
    created by kernels that have this commit.
    
    Fixes: aa75f4d3 ("ext4: main fast-commit commit path")
    Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v5.10+
    Signed-off-by: NEric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
    Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221106224841.279231-7-ebiggers@kernel.orgSigned-off-by: NTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
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