On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 12:39:07AM -0700, Ming Lin wrote:
> Hi Kent,
>
> Seems the max length of xattr name+value is only 2004 bytes.
> Why the limit of U8_MAX below?
The size of the key and value is stored as a u8 in units of u64s - the u64s
field of struct bkey.
>
> root@bee:~# dd if=/dev/zero bs=1 count=1996 2>/dev/null | attr -s "long_attr"
> /mnt/test/attr.txt
> attr_set: Numerical result out of range
> Could not set "long_attr" for /mnt/test/attr.txt
>
> 183 int bch_xattr_set(struct inode *inode, const char *name,
> ...
>
> 230 if (value) {
> 231 struct keylist keys;
> 232 struct bkey_i_xattr *xattr;
> 233 unsigned u64s = BKEY_U64s +
> 234 DIV_ROUND_UP(sizeof(struct bch_xattr) +
> 235 qname.len + size,
> 236 sizeof(u64));
> 237
> 238 if (u64s > U8_MAX) {
> 239 ret = -ERANGE;
> 240 break;
> 241 }
>
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