On 2013年11月07日 18:41, Ján Tomko wrote:
On 11/07/2013 09:35 AM, Li Zhang wrote:
From: Li Zhang <[email protected]>

vol-clone reports out of memory error with disk type on ppc64.

Currently, wbytes is defined as size_t type which is 8 bytes on ppc64,
but args's value in ioctl(fd, args..) in kernel is unsigned int.
So it will read more 4 bytes by ioctl() with size_t from memory which
gets a large number and causes out of memory error.
On x86_64 size_t is 8 bytes and int is 4 bytes, I guess this is an endianness 
issue.

It doesn't look like the endianness issue.
It appends more 32 0s to the value.
I need to trace kernel to see how this happens.

Here is what I get on PPC64.
blksz = 0x1000000000000, pbsz = 0x20000000000

Actually, they should be :
blksz = 0x10000, pbsz = 0x200

On x86_64, they can get right value.


This patch changes size_t to unsigned int to synchronize with kernel.
The type in the kernel seems to be int:
https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/block/ioctl.c#n363
https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/11/1/620

Ah, you are right, should be int. :)


Signed-off-by: Li Zhang <[email protected]>
---
  src/storage/storage_backend.c | 2 +-
  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/storage/storage_backend.c b/src/storage/storage_backend.c
index 4b1b00d..f510080 100644
--- a/src/storage/storage_backend.c
+++ b/src/storage/storage_backend.c
@@ -135,7 +135,7 @@ virStorageBackendCopyToFD(virStorageVolDefPtr vol,
      int amtread = -1;
      int ret = 0;
      size_t rbytes = READ_BLOCK_SIZE_DEFAULT;
-    size_t wbytes = 0;
+    unsigned int wbytes = 0;
      int interval;
      char *zerobuf = NULL;
      char *buf = NULL;

I'll push this with s/unsigned // later, unless someone has a different opinion.

Got it, thanks.


Jan


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