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131072 linear /dev/sdc 8192\"\ndmsetup create corig --table \"0 524288 linear /dev/sdc 262144\"\ndd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/mapper/cmeta bs=4k count=1 oflag=direct\ndmsetup create cache --table \"0 524288 cache /dev/mapper/cmeta \\\n/dev/mapper/cdata /dev/mapper/corig 128 2 metadata2 writethrough smq 0\"\n\n2. shrink the fast device to 512 cache blocks, triggering out-of-bounds\n   access to the dirty bitset (offset 0x80)\n\ndmsetup suspend cache\ndmsetup reload cdata --table \"0 65536 linear /dev/sdc 8192\"\ndmsetup resume cdata\ndmsetup resume cache\n\nKASAN reports:\n\n  BUG: KASAN: vmalloc-out-of-bounds in cache_preresume+0x269/0x7b0\n  Read of size 8 at addr ffffc900000f3080 by task dmsetup/131\n\n  (...snip...)\n  The buggy address belongs to the virtual mapping at\n   [ffffc900000f3000, ffffc900000f5000) created by:\n   cache_ctr+0x176a/0x35f0\n\n  (...snip...)\n  Memory state around the buggy address:\n   ffffc900000f2f80: f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8\n   ffffc900000f3000: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00\n  >ffffc900000f3080: f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8\n                     ^\n   ffffc900000f3100: f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8\n   ffffc900000f3180: f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8\n\nFix by making the index 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