[dm-devel] [PATCH] block: fix an integer overflow in logical block size

[Eric Biggers]

On Wed, Jan 15, 2020 at 08:35:25AM -0500, Mikulas Patocka wrote:
> Logical block size has type unsigned short. That means that it can be at
> most 32768. However, there are architectures that can run with 64k pages
> (for example arm64) and on these architectures, it may be possible to
> create block devices with 64k block size.
> 
> For exmaple (run this on an architecture with 64k pages):
> # modprobe brd rd_size=1048576
> # dmsetup create cache --table "0 `blockdev --getsize /dev/ram0` writecache s /dev/ram0 /dev/ram1 65536 0"
> # mkfs.ext4 -b 65536 /dev/mapper/cache
> # mount -t ext4 /dev/mapper/cache /mnt/test
> 
> Mount will fail with this error because it tries to read the superblock using 2-sector
> access:
>   device-mapper: writecache: I/O is not aligned, sector 2, size 1024, block size 65536
>   EXT4-fs (dm-0): unable to read superblock
> 
> This patch changes the logical block size from unsigned short to unsigned
> int to avoid the overflow.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka at redhat.com>

Mikulas, a question about this patch.  In crypt_io_hints() in
drivers/md/dm-crypt.c there is:

       limits->logical_block_size =
                max_t(unsigned short, limits->logical_block_size, cc->sector_size);

Shouldn't that have been changed to 'unsigned int', now that
limits->logical_block_size is 'unsigned int' rather than 'unsigned short'?

- Eric