Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 18 Oct 2022 14:23:42 +0700 | Subject | Re: BISECT result: 6.0.0-RC kernels trigger Firefox snap bug with 6.0.0-rc3 through 6.0.0-rc7 | From | Bagas Sanjaya <> |
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On 10/18/22 09:15, Jintao Yin wrote: > Hi Phillip, > There is a logical bug in commit 8fc78b6fe24c36b151ac98d7546591ed92083d4f > which is parent commit of commit b09a7a036d2035b14636cd4c4c69518d73770f65. > > In function squashfs_readahead(...), > file_end is initialized with i_size_read(inode) >> msblk->block_log, > which means the last block index of the file. > But later in the logic to check if the page is last one or not the > code is > if (pages[nr_pages - 1]->index == file_end && bytes) { > ... > } > , use file_end as the last page index of file but actually is the last > block index, so for the common setup of page and block size, the first > comparison is true only when pages[nr_pages - 1]->index is 0. > Otherwise, the trailing bytes of last page won't be zeroed. > > Maybe it's the real cause of the snap bug in some way. >
Hi Jintao, thanks for explaining the real culprit. However, I'd like to see the fixup patch from you so that we can test.
Thanks.
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