From: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
To: Zizhi Wo <wozizhi@huaweicloud.com>,
axboe@kernel.dk, linux-block@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, yangerkun@huawei.com,
chengzhihao1@huawei.com, wozizhi@huawei.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] block: fix BLKSECDISCARD zero-length range causing page cache invalidation
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2026 12:39:35 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4ef6f2b4-57b9-40cc-a5cd-e34473e1cba3@acm.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260704073942.3760597-1-wozizhi@huaweicloud.com>
On 7/4/26 12:39 AM, Zizhi Wo wrote:
> Commit 697ba0b6ec4a ("block: fix integer overflow in BLKSECDISCARD") fixed
> the start+len overflow via check_add_overflow() but did not handle the
> start=0, len=0 case. There, start + len = 0, so end = 0 passes all checks,
> and truncate_bdev_range()->truncate_inode_pages_range() is then called with
> lend=UINT64_MAX, whitch is the "truncate to the end of file" sentinel, so
> the entire page cache is invalidated.
>
> Fix this by replacing the validation with blk_validate_byte_range(), which
> already rejects a zero-length range and is what BLKDISCARD uses. This also
> switches the alignment check from a hardcoded 512 to
> bdev_logical_block_size().
A Fixes: tag is missing. Once this has been addressed, feel free to add:
Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-07-24 19:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-07-04 7:39 Zizhi Wo
2026-07-05 15:56 ` yu kuai
2026-07-24 1:17 ` Zizhi Wo
2026-07-24 4:52 ` Christoph Hellwig
2026-07-24 19:39 ` Bart Van Assche [this message]
2026-07-25 0:28 ` Zizhi Wo
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