Mount fails if file system image has empty files because of sanity check
while reading superblock. For empty files disk offset to end of file
(i_eoffset) is cpu_to_le32(-1). Sanity check comparison, which compares
disk offset with file system size isn't valid for this value and hence
is ignored with this patch.
Steps to reproduce:
$ dd if=/dev/zero of=bfs-image count=204800
$ mkfs.bfs bfs-image
$ mkdir bfs-mount-point
$ sudo mount -t bfs -o loop bfs-image bfs-mount-point/
$ cd bfs-mount-point/
$ sudo touch a
$ cd ..
$ sudo umount bfs-mount-point/
$ sudo mount -t bfs -o loop bfs-image bfs-mount-point/
mount: /dev/loop0: can't read superblock
$ dmesg
[25526.689580] BFS-fs: bfs_fill_super(): Inode 0x00000003 corrupted
Tigran said:
"If you had created the filesystem with the proper mkfs under SCO
UnixWare 7 you (probably) wouldn't encounter this issue. But since
commercial Unix-es are now part of history and the only proper way is
the Linux mkfs.bfs utility, your patch is fine"
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170505201625.GA3097@hercules.tuxera.com
Signed-off-by: Rakesh Pandit <rakesh@tuxera.com>
Acked-by: Tigran Aivazian <aivazian.tigran@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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