[lustre-devel] osp_md_index_it_next() may have a bug

[caifengzhu]

Hi,

It seems osp_md_index_it_next() have a bug. Consider the case that 'ent' is non
null and points to the last entry in the current index page. In this case, a
new index page will be loaded with osp_it_next_page() and after the loading,
'ent' remains intact. The entry retrieving based on 'ent' is wrong.  Even
worse, it may cause kernel crash by accessing an unmaped page.

A simple fix may be like below.

diff --git a/lustre/osp/osp_md_object.c b/lustre/osp/osp_md_object.c
index 975249d498..88f3cb0002 100644
--- a/lustre/osp/osp_md_object.c
+++ b/lustre/osp/osp_md_object.c
@@ -663,7 +663,7 @@ static int osp_md_index_it_next(const struct lu_env *env, struct dt_it *di)
 {
        struct osp_it           *it = (struct osp_it *)di;
        struct lu_idxpage       *idxpage;
-       struct lu_dirent        *ent = (struct lu_dirent *)it->ooi_ent;
+       struct lu_dirent        *ent;
        int                     rc;
        ENTRY;

@@ -674,7 +674,7 @@ again:
                        RETURN(1);

                it->ooi_pos_ent++;
-               if (ent == NULL) {
+               if ((ent = (struct lu_dirent *)it->ooi_ent) == NULL) {
                        it->ooi_ent =
                              (struct lu_dirent *)idxpage->lip_entries;
                        RETURN(0);

Best Regards!