compiled without debug. This avoids a possible denial of service
attack. Thanks to Carl-Daniel Hailfinger from SuSE for pointing this
out.
+ - Use i_size_read() in fs/ntfs/attrib.c::ntfs_attr_set().
2.1.22 - Many bug and race fixes and error handling improvements.
index.o inode.o mft.o mst.o namei.o runlist.o super.o sysctl.o \
unistr.o upcase.o
-EXTRA_CFLAGS = -DNTFS_VERSION=\"2.1.22\"
+EXTRA_CFLAGS = -DNTFS_VERSION=\"2.1.23-WIP\"
ifeq ($(CONFIG_NTFS_DEBUG),y)
EXTRA_CFLAGS += -DDEBUG
* byte offset @ofs inside the attribute with the constant byte @val.
*
* This function is effectively like memset() applied to an ntfs attribute.
+ * Note thie function actually only operates on the page cache pages belonging
+ * to the ntfs attribute and it marks them dirty after doing the memset().
+ * Thus it relies on the vm dirty page write code paths to cause the modified
+ * pages to be written to the mft record/disk.
*
* Return 0 on success and -errno on error. An error code of -ESPIPE means
* that @ofs + @cnt were outside the end of the attribute and no write was
end = ofs + cnt;
end_ofs = end & ~PAGE_CACHE_MASK;
/* If the end is outside the inode size return -ESPIPE. */
- if (unlikely(end > VFS_I(ni)->i_size)) {
+ if (unlikely(end > i_size_read(VFS_I(ni)))) {
ntfs_error(vol->sb, "Request exceeds end of attribute.");
return -ESPIPE;
}