JFYI: This issues is tracked in the regression reports for Linux 4.16 (http://bit.ly/lnxregrep416 ) with this id:
Linux-Regression-ID: lr#9e195f Please include this line in the comment section of patches that are supposed to fix the issue. Please also mention the string once in other mailinglist threads or different bug tracking entries if you or someone else start to discuss the issue there. By including that string you make it a whole lot easier to track where an issue gets discussed and how far patches to fix it have made it. For more details on this please see here: http://bit.ly/lnxregtrackid Thx for your help. Ciao, Thorsten On 14.02.2018 14:02, Milan Broz wrote: > Hi, > > the commit (found by bisect) > > commit 18a25da84354c6bb655320de6072c00eda6eb602 > Author: NeilBrown <ne...@suse.com> > Date: Wed Sep 6 09:43:28 2017 +1000 > > dm: ensure bio submission follows a depth-first tree walk > > cause serious regression while reading from DM device. > > The reproducer is below, basically it tries to simulate failure we see in > cryptsetup > regression test: we have DM device with error and zero target and try to read > "passphrase" from it (it is test for 64 bit offset error path): > > Test device: > # dmsetup table test > 0 10000000 error > 10000000 1000000 zero > > We try to run this operation: > lseek64(fd, 5119999988, SEEK_CUR); // this should seek to error target > sector > read(fd, buf, 13); // this should fail, if we seek to error part of the > device > > While on 4.15 the read properly fails: > Seek returned 5119999988. > Read returned -1. > > for 4.16 it actually succeeds returning some random data > (perhaps kernel memory, so this bug is even more dangerous): > Seek returned 5119999988. > Read returned 13. > > Full reproducer below: > > #define _GNU_SOURCE > #define _LARGEFILE64_SOURCE > #include <stdio.h> > #include <stddef.h> > #include <stdint.h> > #include <stdlib.h> > #include <unistd.h> > #include <fcntl.h> > #include <inttypes.h> > > int main (int argc, char *argv[]) > { > char buf[13]; > int fd; > //uint64_t offset64 = 5119999999; > uint64_t offset64 = 5119999988; > off64_t r; > ssize_t bytes; > > system("echo -e \'0 10000000 error\'\\\\n\'10000000 1000000 zero\' | > dmsetup create test"); > > fd = open("/dev/mapper/test", O_RDONLY); > if (fd == -1) { > printf("open fail\n"); > return 1; > } > > r = lseek64(fd, offset64, SEEK_CUR); > printf("Seek returned %" PRIu64 ".\n", r); > if (r < 0) { > printf("seek fail\n"); > close(fd); > return 2; > } > > bytes = read(fd, buf, 13); > printf("Read returned %d.\n", (int)bytes); > > close(fd); > return 0; > } > > > Please let me know if you need more info to reproduce it. > > Milan > > http://news.gmane.org/find-root.php?message_id=70cda2a3-f246-d45b-f600-1f9d15ba22ff%40gmail.com > > http://mid.gmane.org/70cda2a3-f246-d45b-f600-1f9d15ba22ff%40gmail.com >
