Make sure the rec_len field in the '..' entry is sane, lest we overrun the directory block and cause a kernel oops on a purposefully corrupted filesystem. Thanks to Sami Liedes for reporting this bug. http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12430 Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@xxxxxxx> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxx --- fs/ext4/namei.c | 21 +++++++++++++++------ 1 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/ext4/namei.c b/fs/ext4/namei.c index fec0b4c..ba702bd 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/namei.c +++ b/fs/ext4/namei.c @@ -1368,7 +1368,7 @@ static int make_indexed_dir(handle_t *handle, struct dentry *dentry, struct fake_dirent *fde; blocksize = dir->i_sb->s_blocksize; - dxtrace(printk(KERN_DEBUG "Creating index\n")); + dxtrace(printk(KERN_DEBUG "Creating index: inode %lu\n", dir->i_ino)); retval = ext4_journal_get_write_access(handle, bh); if (retval) { ext4_std_error(dir->i_sb, retval); @@ -1377,6 +1377,20 @@ static int make_indexed_dir(handle_t *handle, struct dentry *dentry, } root = (struct dx_root *) bh->b_data; + /* The 0th block becomes the root, move the dirents out */ + fde = &root->dotdot; + de = (struct ext4_dir_entry_2 *)((char *)fde + + ext4_rec_len_from_disk(fde->rec_len)); + if ((char *) de >= (((char *) root) + blocksize)) { + ext4_error(dir->i_sb, __func__, + "invalid rec_len for '..' in inode %lu", + dir->i_ino); + brelse(bh); + return -EIO; + } + len = ((char *) root) + blocksize - (char *) de; + + /* Allocate new block for the 0th block's dirents */ bh2 = ext4_append(handle, dir, &block, &retval); if (!(bh2)) { brelse(bh); @@ -1385,11 +1399,6 @@ static int make_indexed_dir(handle_t *handle, struct dentry *dentry, EXT4_I(dir)->i_flags |= EXT4_INDEX_FL; data1 = bh2->b_data; - /* The 0th block becomes the root, move the dirents out */ - fde = &root->dotdot; - de = (struct ext4_dir_entry_2 *)((char *)fde + - ext4_rec_len_from_disk(fde->rec_len)); - len = ((char *) root) + blocksize - (char *) de; memcpy (data1, de, len); de = (struct ext4_dir_entry_2 *) data1; top = data1 + len; -- 1.6.0.4.8.g36f27.dirty -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html