On 2018-02-28 14:53, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 02:45:49PM +0100, Max Reitz wrote:
>> On 2018-02-28 14:34, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
>>> On Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 02:13:14PM +0100, Max Reitz wrote:
>>>> Storing the lseek() result in an int results in it overflowing when the
>>>> file is at least 2 GB big.  Then, we have a 50 % chance of the result
>>>> being "negative" and thus thinking an error occurred when actually
>>>> everything went just fine.
>>>>
>>>> So we should use the correct type for storing the result: off_t.
>>>>
>>>> Reported-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
>>>> Buglink: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1549231
>>>> Cc: qemu-stable@nongnu.org
>>>> Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
>>>> ---
>>>>  block/file-posix.c | 5 +++--
>>>>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/block/file-posix.c b/block/file-posix.c
>>>> index f1591c3849..90c25864a0 100644
>>>> --- a/block/file-posix.c
>>>> +++ b/block/file-posix.c
>>>> @@ -1697,6 +1697,7 @@ static int raw_regular_truncate(int fd, int64_t offset, PreallocMode prealloc,
>>>>      case PREALLOC_MODE_FULL:
>>>>      {
>>>>          int64_t num = 0, left = offset - current_length;
>>>> +        off_t seek_result;
>>>>  
>>>>          /*
>>>>           * Knowing the final size from the beginning could allow the file
>>>> @@ -1711,8 +1712,8 @@ static int raw_regular_truncate(int fd, int64_t offset, PreallocMode prealloc,
>>>>  
>>>>          buf = g_malloc0(65536);
>>>>  
>>>> -        result = lseek(fd, current_length, SEEK_SET);
>>>> -        if (result < 0) {
>>>> +        seek_result = lseek(fd, current_length, SEEK_SET);
>>>> +        if (seek_result < 0) {
>>>
>>> off_t is an unsigned type, so this comparison to "< 0" is bogus - only the
>>> exact value (off_t)-1 indicates an error. So this needs to be
>>>
>>>    if (seek_result == (off_t)-1) {
>>>       ...
>>>    }
>>
>> Hmmm... On my system, it appears to be a long int[1].  And
>> find_allocation() does an off_t < 0 comparison already.  And
>> "man 0p sys_types.h" says "blkcnt_t and off_t shall be signed integer
>> types."
> 
> Hmm, that's odd then - lseek man page explicitly said it must be cast,
> which suggested to me it could be unsigned:
> 
>    RETURN VALUE
>        Upon successful completion, lseek() returns the resulting offset  loca‐
>        tion  as  measured  in bytes from the beginning of the file.  On error,
>        the value (off_t) -1 is returned and  errno  is  set  to  indicate  the
>        error.
> 
> CC'ing Eric for the "official" POSIX answer....

But it also says (under NOTES):

The off_t data type is a signed integer data type specified by POSIX.1.

Max