From: Lars Ellenberg <lars.ellenb...@linbit.com> When accessing out meta data area on disk, we double check the plausibility of the requested sector offsets, and are very noisy about it if they look suspicious.
During initial read of our "superblock", for "external" meta data, this triggered because the range estimate returned by drbd_md_last_sector() was still wrong. Signed-off-by: Philipp Reisner <philipp.reis...@linbit.com> Signed-off-by: Lars Ellenberg <lars.ellenb...@linbit.com> --- drivers/block/drbd/drbd_main.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_main.c b/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_main.c index 30c1120..903d22e 100644 --- a/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_main.c +++ b/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_main.c @@ -3271,6 +3271,10 @@ int drbd_md_read(struct drbd_device *device, struct drbd_backing_dev *bdev) * and read it. */ bdev->md.meta_dev_idx = bdev->disk_conf->meta_dev_idx; bdev->md.md_offset = drbd_md_ss(bdev); + /* Even for (flexible or indexed) external meta data, + * initially restrict us to the 4k superblock for now. + * Affects the paranoia out-of-range access check in drbd_md_sync_page_io(). */ + bdev->md.md_size_sect = 8; if (drbd_md_sync_page_io(device, bdev, bdev->md.md_offset, READ)) { /* NOTE: can't do normal error processing here as this is -- 1.9.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/