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authorMikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>2013-03-01 22:45:44 +0000
committerAlasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>2013-03-01 22:45:44 +0000
commitfd7c092e711ebab55b2688d3859d95dfd0301f73 (patch)
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dm: fix truncated status strings
Avoid returning a truncated table or status string instead of setting the DM_BUFFER_FULL_FLAG when the last target of a table fills the buffer. When processing a table or status request, the function retrieve_status calls ti->type->status. If ti->type->status returns non-zero, retrieve_status assumes that the buffer overflowed and sets DM_BUFFER_FULL_FLAG. However, targets don't return non-zero values from their status method on overflow. Most targets returns always zero. If a buffer overflow happens in a target that is not the last in the table, it gets noticed during the next iteration of the loop in retrieve_status; but if a buffer overflow happens in the last target, it goes unnoticed and erroneously truncated data is returned. In the current code, the targets behave in the following way: * dm-crypt returns -ENOMEM if there is not enough space to store the key, but it returns 0 on all other overflows. * dm-thin returns errors from the status method if a disk error happened. This is incorrect because retrieve_status doesn't check the error code, it assumes that all non-zero values mean buffer overflow. * all the other targets always return 0. This patch changes the ti->type->status function to return void (because most targets don't use the return code). Overflow is detected in retrieve_status: if the status method fills up the remaining space completely, it is assumed that buffer overflow happened. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/device-mapper.h4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/device-mapper.h b/include/linux/device-mapper.h
index bf6afa2fc432..a5cda3ea6b88 100644
--- a/include/linux/device-mapper.h
+++ b/include/linux/device-mapper.h
@@ -68,8 +68,8 @@ typedef void (*dm_postsuspend_fn) (struct dm_target *ti);
typedef int (*dm_preresume_fn) (struct dm_target *ti);
typedef void (*dm_resume_fn) (struct dm_target *ti);
-typedef int (*dm_status_fn) (struct dm_target *ti, status_type_t status_type,
- unsigned status_flags, char *result, unsigned maxlen);
+typedef void (*dm_status_fn) (struct dm_target *ti, status_type_t status_type,
+ unsigned status_flags, char *result, unsigned maxlen);
typedef int (*dm_message_fn) (struct dm_target *ti, unsigned argc, char **argv);