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coolreader18

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Registered: 2021-04-12

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exfat write() fails with EFAULT when the write size is zero

I have a drive mounted in /media with the options `rw,sync,noatime,noauto,user,exec`. Writing to any file in that filesystem with an empty buffer fails with "bad address":

>>> open("foo", "wb", buffering=0).write(b"")
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
OSError: [Errno 14] Bad address

Is anyone else experiencing this? Or can reproduce? I figure this is probably a kernel bug but I don't know what would even be causing it, based on a very cursory glance at the fs-exfat source code.

O239

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Registered: 2024-03-01

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Re: exfat write() fails with EFAULT when the write size is zero

I can reproduce this on my exfat-formatted flash drive.

notpeter

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Re: exfat write() fails with EFAULT when the write size is zero

I am also able to reproduce this on Ubuntu Linux with an exFAT volume mounted from a file (no usb stick required).

mkdir /tmp/exfat
cd $_
fallocate -l 512M exfat.img
mkfs.exfat exfat.img
sudo mkdir -p /fatimagedir/
sudo mount -o umask=0022,gid=$(id -g),uid=$(id -u) /tmp/exfat/exfat.img /fatimagedir/
cd /fatimagedir
python3 -c 'open("foo", "wb", buffering=0).write(b"")'

Thanks for the simple repro steps @coolreader18.

I very much appreciate it.
See also: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/21595

xerxes_

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Registered: 2018-04-29

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Re: exfat write() fails with EFAULT when the write size is zero

What kernel version do you use?

notpeter

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Re: exfat write() fails with EFAULT when the write size is zero

Stock Ubuntu 24.04

6.8.0-48-generic on x86_64

Last edited by notpeter (2024-12-13 18:43:26)

xerxes_

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Re: exfat write() fails with EFAULT when the write size is zero

That kernel is old, from Ubuntu and probably unsupported on Arch. Try current kernel on current Arch Linux!

seth

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Re: exfat write() fails with EFAULT when the write size is zero

Tbf, this is also an older thread

Has anyone filed a bug at https://github.com/relan/exfat/issues ?
Doesn't seem to affect ntfs-3g, so probably not a fusermount thing.

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