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| author | Lars Ellenberg <lars.ellenberg@linbit.com> | 2012-06-08 13:18:51 +0200 | 
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| committer | Philipp Reisner <philipp.reisner@linbit.com> | 2012-06-12 14:32:48 +0200 | 
| commit | 4eccc579795290a58e2262fa4e9d083d7672e699 (patch) | |
| tree | b3ab140adfb03557fd80691aabb5c337f10ffde8 /fs/btrfs/compression.c | |
| parent | 4fd1ffaa122cf66bfb710ced43679413df4f3605 (diff) | |
drbd: fix access of unallocated pages and kernel panic
BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at (null)
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 [<d1e17561>] ? _drbd_bm_set_bits+0x151/0x240 [drbd]
 [<d1e236f8>] ? receive_bitmap+0x4f8/0xbc0 [drbd]
This fixes an off-by-one error in the receive_bitmap() path,
if run-length encoded bitmap transfer is enabled.
If the bitmap is an exact multiple of PAGE_SIZE, which means the visible
capacity of the drbd device is an exact multiple of 128 MiB (for 4k page
size), and bitmap compression (use-rle) is enabled (which became default
with 8.4), and the very last bit is dirty and reported in an rle
comressed bitmap packet, we ended up trying to kmap_atomic a page pointer
that does not exist (bitmap->bm_pages[last index + 1]).
bug introduced by:
    Date:   Fri Jul 24 15:33:24 2009 +0200
    set bits: optimize for complete last word, fix off-by-one-word corner case
made effective by:
    Date:   Thu Dec 16 00:32:38 2010 +0100
    drbd: get rid of unused debug code
    Long time ago, we had paranoia code in the bitmap that allocated one
    extra word, assigned a magic value, and checked on every occasion that
    the magic value was still unchanged.
    That debug code is unused, the extra long word complicates code a bit.
    Get rid of it.
No-one triggered this bug in the last few years, because a large subset
of our userbase is unaffected:
 * typically the last few blocks of a device are not modified
   frequently, and remain unset
 * use-rle was disabled by default in drbd < 8.4
 * those with slightly "odd" device sizes, or
 * drbd internal meta data (which will skew the device size slightly,
   thus makes it harder to have a bug relevant device size)
Signed-off-by: Philipp Reisner <philipp.reisner@linbit.com>
Signed-off-by: Lars Ellenberg <lars.ellenberg@linbit.com>
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