[PATCH 2/2] f2fs: add __pack attribute for extent_info

Chao Yu chao at kernel.org
Fri Mar 31 18:00:59 PDT 2023


On 2023/3/31 17:26, Bo Ye wrote:
> From: Qilin Tan <qilin.tan at mediatek.com>
> 
> Need add __pack for struct extent_info to align to memory
> layout of struct rb_entry.

Jaegeuk has fixed this bug w/ below patchset, please check it:

https://lore.kernel.org/linux-f2fs-devel/20230313201216.924234-1-jaegeuk@kernel.org/

Thanks,

> 
> struct rb_entry {
>      struct rb_node rb_node;     /* rb node located in rb-tree */
>      union {
>          struct {
>              unsigned int ofs;   /* start offset of the entry */
>              unsigned int len;   /* length of the entry */
>          };
>          unsigned long long key;     /* 64-bits key */
>      } __packed;
> };
> 
> struct extent_info {
>      unsigned int fofs;      /* start offset in a file */
>      unsigned int len;       /* length of the extent */
>      union {
>          ...
>          /* block age extent_cache */
>          struct {
>              /* block age of the extent */
>              unsigned long long age;
>              /* last total blocks allocated */
>              unsigned long long last_blocks;
>          };
> };
> 
> The new fields(age, last_blocks) are u64 in change 71644dff4811, it
> cause the memory alignment based on 8 bytes in some complier. So the
> field fofs and len are alloced with 8 bytes and using the last 4 byts.
> Its memory is not aligned with struct rb_entry. the ofs of rb_entry
> pointer to a invalid value and cause writing file failed.
> 
> struct extent_info's offset should be 12 rather than 16 from the
> beginning of struct rb_entry.
> 
> The offset dump for the bad case as:
> kworker/u16:6: [name:f2fs&]f2fs_lookup_rb_tree_for_insert:MTK_DEBUG: ino=1629 re=0xc675dc08 ofs=0 re->ofs=0, re->len=68 ei=0xc675dc18 ei.fofs=68 ei.len=277
> 
> Fixes: 71644dff4811 ("f2fs: add block_age-based extent cache")
> Signed-off-by: Bo Ye <bo.ye at mediatek.com>
> Signed-off-by: Qilin Tan <qilin.tan at mediatek.com>
> ---
>   fs/f2fs/f2fs.h | 2 +-
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/f2fs/f2fs.h b/fs/f2fs/f2fs.h
> index b0ab2062038a..7c690667a42f 100644
> --- a/fs/f2fs/f2fs.h
> +++ b/fs/f2fs/f2fs.h
> @@ -660,7 +660,7 @@ struct extent_info {
>   			unsigned long long last_blocks;
>   		};
>   	};
> -};
> +} __packed;
>   
>   struct extent_node {
>   	struct rb_node rb_node;		/* rb node located in rb-tree */



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