dm: fix truncated status strings

Avoid returning a truncated table or status string instead of setting
the DM_BUFFER_FULL_FLAG when the last target of a table fills the
buffer.

When processing a table or status request, the function retrieve_status
calls ti->type->status. If ti->type->status returns non-zero,
retrieve_status assumes that the buffer overflowed and sets
DM_BUFFER_FULL_FLAG.

However, targets don't return non-zero values from their status method
on overflow. Most targets returns always zero.

If a buffer overflow happens in a target that is not the last in the
table, it gets noticed during the next iteration of the loop in
retrieve_status; but if a buffer overflow happens in the last target, it
goes unnoticed and erroneously truncated data is returned.

In the current code, the targets behave in the following way:
* dm-crypt returns -ENOMEM if there is not enough space to store the
  key, but it returns 0 on all other overflows.
* dm-thin returns errors from the status method if a disk error happened.
  This is incorrect because retrieve_status doesn't check the error
  code, it assumes that all non-zero values mean buffer overflow.
* all the other targets always return 0.

This patch changes the ti->type->status function to return void (because
most targets don't use the return code). Overflow is detected in
retrieve_status: if the status method fills up the remaining space
completely, it is assumed that buffer overflow happened.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-mpath.c b/drivers/md/dm-mpath.c
index 573bd04..d267bb5 100644
--- a/drivers/md/dm-mpath.c
+++ b/drivers/md/dm-mpath.c
@@ -1378,8 +1378,8 @@ static void multipath_resume(struct dm_target *ti)
  *     [priority selector-name num_ps_args [ps_args]*
  *      num_paths num_selector_args [path_dev [selector_args]* ]+ ]+
  */
-static int multipath_status(struct dm_target *ti, status_type_t type,
-			    unsigned status_flags, char *result, unsigned maxlen)
+static void multipath_status(struct dm_target *ti, status_type_t type,
+			     unsigned status_flags, char *result, unsigned maxlen)
 {
 	int sz = 0;
 	unsigned long flags;
@@ -1485,8 +1485,6 @@ static int multipath_status(struct dm_target *ti, status_type_t type,
 	}
 
 	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&m->lock, flags);
-
-	return 0;
 }
 
 static int multipath_message(struct dm_target *ti, unsigned argc, char **argv)
@@ -1695,7 +1693,7 @@ out:
  *---------------------------------------------------------------*/
 static struct target_type multipath_target = {
 	.name = "multipath",
-	.version = {1, 5, 0},
+	.version = {1, 5, 1},
 	.module = THIS_MODULE,
 	.ctr = multipath_ctr,
 	.dtr = multipath_dtr,