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SubjectRe: [PATCH] ext4: fix possible overflow in ext4_trim_fs()
On Mon, 20 Dec 2010, Ted Ts'o wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 03:11:17PM +0100, Lukas Czerner wrote:
> > When determining last group through ext4_get_group_no_and_offset() the
> > result may be wrong in cases when range->start and range-len are too
> > big, because it may overflow when summing up those two numbers.
> >
> > Fix that by checking range->len and limit its value to
> > ext4_blocks_count(). This commit was tested by myself with expected
> > result.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com>
>
> Added to the ext4 patch queue. Thanks for the ping.
>
> - Ted
>

Hi Ted,

Actually the patch is not enough, there is still a possibility for
overflow to happen. Jan Kara notice the same bug in ext3 batched discard
implementation. I am sorry for this, I'll sen updated patch ASAP.

-Lukas


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