dm: fix truncated status strings
Avoid returning a truncated table or status string instead of setting
the DM_BUFFER_FULL_FLAG when the last target of a table fills the
buffer.
When processing a table or status request, the function retrieve_status
calls ti->type->status. If ti->type->status returns non-zero,
retrieve_status assumes that the buffer overflowed and sets
DM_BUFFER_FULL_FLAG.
However, targets don't return non-zero values from their status method
on overflow. Most targets returns always zero.
If a buffer overflow happens in a target that is not the last in the
table, it gets noticed during the next iteration of the loop in
retrieve_status; but if a buffer overflow happens in the last target, it
goes unnoticed and erroneously truncated data is returned.
In the current code, the targets behave in the following way:
* dm-crypt returns -ENOMEM if there is not enough space to store the
key, but it returns 0 on all other overflows.
* dm-thin returns errors from the status method if a disk error happened.
This is incorrect because retrieve_status doesn't check the error
code, it assumes that all non-zero values mean buffer overflow.
* all the other targets always return 0.
This patch changes the ti->type->status function to return void (because
most targets don't use the return code). Overflow is detected in
retrieve_status: if the status method fills up the remaining space
completely, it is assumed that buffer overflow happened.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-mpath.c b/drivers/md/dm-mpath.c
index 573bd04..d267bb5 100644
--- a/drivers/md/dm-mpath.c
+++ b/drivers/md/dm-mpath.c
@@ -1378,8 +1378,8 @@
* [priority selector-name num_ps_args [ps_args]*
* num_paths num_selector_args [path_dev [selector_args]* ]+ ]+
*/
-static int multipath_status(struct dm_target *ti, status_type_t type,
- unsigned status_flags, char *result, unsigned maxlen)
+static void multipath_status(struct dm_target *ti, status_type_t type,
+ unsigned status_flags, char *result, unsigned maxlen)
{
int sz = 0;
unsigned long flags;
@@ -1485,8 +1485,6 @@
}
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&m->lock, flags);
-
- return 0;
}
static int multipath_message(struct dm_target *ti, unsigned argc, char **argv)
@@ -1695,7 +1693,7 @@
*---------------------------------------------------------------*/
static struct target_type multipath_target = {
.name = "multipath",
- .version = {1, 5, 0},
+ .version = {1, 5, 1},
.module = THIS_MODULE,
.ctr = multipath_ctr,
.dtr = multipath_dtr,