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authorJ. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>2007-07-19 01:49:18 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-07-19 10:04:52 -0700
commita280df32db291f41b3922ac218674be526af5b9b (patch)
tree133e80664abd69ad14b3951112d2916e26f51680 /fs/gfs2/util.h
parentd688abf50bd5a30d2c44dea2a72dd59052cd3cce (diff)
nfsd: fix possible read-ahead cache and export table corruption
The value of nperbucket calculated here is too small--we should be rounding up instead of down--with the result that the index j in the following loop can overflow the raparm_hash array. At least in my case, the next thing in memory turns out to be export_table, so the symptoms I see are crashes caused by the appearance of four zeroed-out export entries in the first bucket of the hash table of exports (which were actually entries in the readahead cache, a pointer to which had been written to the export table in this initialization code). It looks like the bug was probably introduced with commit fce1456a19f5c08b688c29f00ef90fdfa074c79b ("knfsd: make the readahead params cache SMP-friendly"). Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Cc: Greg Banks <gnb@melbourne.sgi.com> Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu> Acked-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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