[Ocfs2-devel] [PATCH] ocfs2: fix shift left overflow

[Joseph Qi]

On 2015/7/29 4:51, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Jul 2015 11:39:16 +0800 Joseph Qi <joseph.qi at huawei.com> wrote:
> 
>> cluster pos is defined as u32, when calculate corresponding sector it
>> should be converted to u64 first, otherwise it may overflow.
> 
> What are the runtime effects of this change?
> 
The issue is when using large volume, for example, 9T volume with 2T already
used, frequently create small files with O_DIRECT and the IO is not cluster
aligned, it may clear sectors in the wrong place.

> Please always include this info when fixing bugs so that others can
> work out which kernel version(s) should be patched.
> 
Sorry, I'll bear it in mind.
> 
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