ext4: Fix max file size and logical block counting of extent format file

Kazuya Mio reported that he was able to hit BUG_ON(next == lblock)
in ext4_ext_put_gap_in_cache() while creating a sparse file in extent
format and fill the tail of file up to its end. We will hit the BUG_ON
when we write the last block (2^32-1) into the sparse file.

The root cause of the problem lies in the fact that we specifically set
s_maxbytes so that block at s_maxbytes fit into on-disk extent format,
which is 32 bit long. However, we are not storing start and end block
number, but rather start block number and length in blocks. It means
that in order to cover extent from 0 to EXT_MAX_BLOCK we need
EXT_MAX_BLOCK+1 to fit into len (because we counting block 0 as well) -
and it does not.

The only way to fix it without changing the meaning of the struct
ext4_extent members is, as Kazuya Mio suggested, to lower s_maxbytes
by one fs block so we can cover the whole extent we can get by the
on-disk extent format.

Also in many places EXT_MAX_BLOCK is used as length instead of maximum
logical block number as the name suggests, it is all a bit messy. So
this commit renames it to EXT_MAX_BLOCKS and change its usage in some
places to actually be maximum number of blocks in the extent.

The bug which this commit fixes can be reproduced as follows:

 dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/mp1/file bs=<blocksize> count=1 seek=$((2**32-2))
 sync
 dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/mp1/file bs=<blocksize> count=1 seek=$((2**32-1))

Reported-by: Kazuya Mio <k-mio@sx.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/fs/ext4/super.c b/fs/ext4/super.c
index cc5c157aa11..9ea71aa864b 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/super.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/super.c
@@ -2243,6 +2243,12 @@ static void ext4_orphan_cleanup(struct super_block *sb,
  * in the vfs.  ext4 inode has 48 bits of i_block in fsblock units,
  * so that won't be a limiting factor.
  *
+ * However there is other limiting factor. We do store extents in the form
+ * of starting block and length, hence the resulting length of the extent
+ * covering maximum file size must fit into on-disk format containers as
+ * well. Given that length is always by 1 unit bigger than max unit (because
+ * we count 0 as well) we have to lower the s_maxbytes by one fs block.
+ *
  * Note, this does *not* consider any metadata overhead for vfs i_blocks.
  */
 static loff_t ext4_max_size(int blkbits, int has_huge_files)
@@ -2264,10 +2270,13 @@ static loff_t ext4_max_size(int blkbits, int has_huge_files)
 		upper_limit <<= blkbits;
 	}
 
-	/* 32-bit extent-start container, ee_block */
-	res = 1LL << 32;
+	/*
+	 * 32-bit extent-start container, ee_block. We lower the maxbytes
+	 * by one fs block, so ee_len can cover the extent of maximum file
+	 * size
+	 */
+	res = (1LL << 32) - 1;
 	res <<= blkbits;
-	res -= 1;
 
 	/* Sanity check against vm- & vfs- imposed limits */
 	if (res > upper_limit)