nfsd: fix possible read-ahead cache and export table corruption

The value of nperbucket calculated here is too small--we should be rounding up
instead of down--with the result that the index j in the following loop can
overflow the raparm_hash array.  At least in my case, the next thing in memory
turns out to be export_table, so the symptoms I see are crashes caused by the
appearance of four zeroed-out export entries in the first bucket of the hash
table of exports (which were actually entries in the readahead cache, a
pointer to which had been written to the export table in this initialization
code).

It looks like the bug was probably introduced with commit
fce1456a19 ("knfsd: make the readahead params
cache SMP-friendly").

Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Cc: Greg Banks <gnb@melbourne.sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Acked-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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J. Bruce Fields 2007-07-19 01:49:18 -07:00 коммит произвёл Linus Torvalds
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@ -1916,7 +1916,7 @@ nfsd_racache_init(int cache_size)
raparm_hash[i].pb_head = NULL;
spin_lock_init(&raparm_hash[i].pb_lock);
}
nperbucket = cache_size >> RAPARM_HASH_BITS;
nperbucket = DIV_ROUND_UP(cache_size, RAPARM_HASH_SIZE);
for (i = 0; i < cache_size - 1; i++) {
if (i % nperbucket == 0)
raparm_hash[j++].pb_head = raparml + i;