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Huiwen He 0923ae9f23 smb/client: fix data corruption in emulated insert range
smb3_insert_range() shifts [off, EOF) right with COPYCHUNK, copying from
low to high offsets. When the ranges overlap, the copy can overwrite
source data that has not yet been copied. For a 1 MiB insert at offset 0:

  offset:    0       1M      2M      3M      4M      5M
  before:   |   A   |   B   |   C   |   D   |
  expected: | hole  |   A   |   B   |   C   |   D   |
  current:  | hole  |   A   |   A   |   A   |   A   | (corrupted)

Let x be the insertion offset, L the total length to move, delta the
insert length, and C the normal chunk size allowed by the server.
Insert range maps

  [x, x + L) -> [x + delta, x + delta + L).

When delta >= L, the complete source and target ranges are disjoint, so
the normal copy order and chunk size are safe:

  offset: 0       4       8      12      16      20      24      28      32
  source: [--S0--][--S1--][--S2--][--S3--]
  target:                                 [--T0--][--T1--][--T2--][--T3--]

When delta < L, the complete source and target ranges overlap, so the
copy must proceed from EOF backwards. There are two subcases.

If delta >= C, each corresponding source and target chunk is disjoint.
The 1 MiB example has L = 4 MiB and delta = C = 1 MiB:

  offset: 0       1M      2M      3M      4M      5M
  source: [--S0--][--S1--][--S2--][--S3--]
  target:         [--T0--][--T1--][--T2--][--T3--]

Copying S0 from [0, 1M) to [1M, 2M) overwrites S1 before it is copied.
Processing chunks from EOF backwards prevents this inter-chunk
overwrite.

If delta < C, the source and target ranges of a normal chunk also
overlap. For example, with L = 16, delta = 2 and C = 4:

  offset: 0   2   4   6   8  10  12  14  16  18
  source: [--S0--][--S1--][--S2--][--S3--]
  target:     [--T0--][--T1--][--T2--][--T3--]

Here S0 and T0 overlap over [2,4), S1 and T1 over [6,8), and so on.
Backward ordering cannot control how the server copies bytes inside one
descriptor, so the chunk size must be limited to delta.

Fix this by copying overlapping right shifts from EOF backwards. Limit
the chunk size to delta when delta < C so that each chunk's source and
target ranges do not overlap. Using larger chunks would require a way to
identify servers that safely handle overlapping COPYCHUNK descriptors.

Therefore:

  delta >= L:
    keep the normal copy order and chunk size

  delta < L:
    delta >= C: copy backwards and keep the normal chunk size
    delta <  C: copy backwards and limit the chunk size to delta

Only the delta < C subcase requires reducing the chunk size for data
integrity.

Reproducer:

  bash -c '
          MNT=/mnt/scratch

          # Generate four 1 MiB random blocks: [A][B][C][D].
          dd if=/dev/urandom of=/tmp/src bs=1M count=4 status=none

          # With C = 1 MiB, test delta = C and delta < C.
          for delta in 1M 1K; do
                  truncate -s 0 /tmp/expected
                  truncate -s "$delta" /tmp/expected
                  cat /tmp/src >> /tmp/expected

                  cp /tmp/src "$MNT/file"
                  fallocate --insert-range -o 0 -l "$delta" "$MNT/file"

                  if cmp -s /tmp/expected "$MNT/file"; then
                          echo "delta=$delta: OK"
                  else
                          echo "delta=$delta: CORRUPTED"
                  fi
          done
  '

The corruption reproduces with Samba and ksmbd, while Windows handles
the overlapping COPYCHUNK ranges safely.

The 1 MiB case tests delta >= C, while the 1 KiB case tests delta < C.
Before this change, the reproducer reports:

  delta=1M: CORRUPTED
  delta=1K: CORRUPTED

After this change, it passes against both ksmbd and Samba:

  delta=1M: OK
  delta=1K: OK

Fixes: 7fe6fe95b9 ("cifs: add FALLOC_FL_INSERT_RANGE support")
Signed-off-by: Huiwen He <hehuiwen@kylinos.cn>
Reviewed-by: ChenXiaoSong <chenxiaosong@kylinos.cn>
Reviewed-by: Namjae Jeon <linkinjeon@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Paulo Alcantara <pc@manguebit.org>
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