29 Mar, 2012

1 commit

  • Device mapper uses sscanf to convert arguments to numbers. The problem is that
    the way we use it ignores additional unmatched characters in the scanned string.

    For example, this `if (sscanf(string, "%d", &number) == 1)' will match a number,
    but also it will match number with some garbage appended, like "123abc".

    As a result, device mapper accepts garbage after some numbers. For example
    the command `dmsetup create vg1-new --table "0 16384 linear 254:1bla 34816bla"'
    will pass without an error.

    This patch fixes all sscanf uses in device mapper. It appends "%c" with
    a pointer to a dummy character variable to every sscanf statement.

    The construct `if (sscanf(string, "%d%c", &number, &dummy) == 1)' succeeds
    only if string is a null-terminated number (optionally preceded by some
    whitespace characters). If there is some character appended after the number,
    sscanf matches "%c", writes the character to the dummy variable and returns 2.
    We check the return value for 1 and consequently reject numbers with some
    garbage appended.

    Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka
    Acked-by: Mike Snitzer
    Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon

    Mikulas Patocka
     

27 Jul, 2011

1 commit

  • This allows us to move duplicated code in
    (atomic_inc_not_zero() for now) to

    Signed-off-by: Arun Sharma
    Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet
    Cc: Ingo Molnar
    Cc: David Miller
    Cc: Eric Dumazet
    Acked-by: Mike Frysinger
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Arun Sharma
     

22 Jun, 2009

1 commit

  • This patch adds a dynamic load balancer, dm-queue-length, which
    balances the number of in-flight I/Os across the paths.

    The code is based on the patch posted by Stefan Bader:
    https://www.redhat.com/archives/dm-devel/2005-October/msg00050.html

    Signed-off-by: Stefan Bader
    Signed-off-by: Kiyoshi Ueda
    Signed-off-by: Jun'ichi Nomura
    Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon

    Kiyoshi Ueda