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    cifs: fix sb->s_maxbytes so that it casts properly to a signed value · 03aa3a49
    Jeff Layton authored
    This off-by-one bug causes sendfile() to not work properly. When a task
    calls sendfile() on a file on a CIFS filesystem, the syscall returns -1
    and sets errno to EOVERFLOW.
    
    do_sendfile uses s_maxbytes to verify the returned offset of the file.
    The problem there is that this value is cast to a signed value (loff_t).
    When this is done on the s_maxbytes value that cifs uses, it becomes
    negative and the comparisons against it fail.
    
    Even though s_maxbytes is an unsigned value, it seems that it's not OK
    to set it in such a way that it'll end up negative when it's cast to a
    signed value. These casts happen in other codepaths besides sendfile
    too, but the VFS is a little hard to follow in this area and I can't
    be sure if there are other bugs that this will fix.
    
    It's not clear to me why s_maxbytes isn't just declared as loff_t in the
    first place, but either way we still need to fix these values to make
    sendfile work properly. This is also an opportunity to replace the magic
    bit-shift values here with the standard #defines for this.
    
    This fixes the reproducer program I have that does a sendfile and
    will probably also fix the situation where apache is serving from a
    CIFS share.
    Acked-by: default avatarJohannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarSteve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
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