Re: [PATCH 1/3] make static counters in new_inode and iunique be 32 bits

[Kirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org>]

Acked-By: Kirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org>

hit it today as well :/

> When a 32-bit program that was not compiled with large file offsets does a
> stat and gets a st_ino value back that won't fit in the 32 bit field, glibc
> (correctly) generates an EOVERFLOW error. We can't do anything about fs's
> with larger permanent inode numbers, but when we generate them on the fly,
> we ought to try and have them fit within a 32 bit field.
> 
> This patch takes the first step toward this by making the static counters in
> these two functions be 32 bits.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
> 
> diff --git a/fs/inode.c b/fs/inode.c
> index bf21dc6..23fc1fd 100644
> --- a/fs/inode.c
> +++ b/fs/inode.c
> @@ -524,7 +524,8 @@ repeat:
>   */
>  struct inode *new_inode(struct super_block *sb)
>  {
> -	static unsigned long last_ino;
> +	/* 32 bits for compatability mode stat calls */
> +	static unsigned int last_ino;
>  	struct inode * inode;
>  
>  	spin_lock_prefetch(&inode_lock);
> @@ -683,7 +684,8 @@ static unsigned long hash(struct super_block *sb, unsigned long hashval)
>   */
>  ino_t iunique(struct super_block *sb, ino_t max_reserved)
>  {
> -	static ino_t counter;
> +	/* 32 bits for compatability mode stat calls */
> +	static unsigned int counter;
>  	struct inode *inode;
>  	struct hlist_head * head;
>  	ino_t res;
> -
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