On Jun 02, 2009 08:07 -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > + if (ei->i_file_acl && > + ((ei->i_file_acl < > + (le32_to_cpu(EXT4_SB(sb)->s_es->s_first_data_block) + > + EXT4_SB(sb)->s_gdb_count)) || > + (ei->i_file_acl >= ext4_blocks_count(EXT4_SB(sb)->s_es)))) { I was just thinking it might make sense to wrap this check into a helper like the following. We check the validity of blocks in at least half a dozen different places. The elaborate ext4_blocktype is to allow for future expansion of this checking mechanism to allow it to check for blocks overlapping with e.g. the inode table and such, and possibly for using with the jbd2 buffer checksum mechanism at some later date. enum ext4_blocktype { EXT4_BT_SUPERBLOCK = 1, EXT4_BT_GDT = 2, EXT4_BT_INODE_BITMAP = 3, EXT4_BT_BLOCK_BITMAP = 4, EXT4_BT_INODE_TABLE = 5, EXT4_BT_DIRECTORY_ROOT = 10, EXT4_BT_DIRECTORY_LEAF = 11, EXT4_BT_DIRECTORY_HTREE = 12, EXT4_BT_INDIRECT = 21, EXT4_BT_DINDIRECT = 22, EXT4_BT_TINDIRECT = 23, EXT4_BT_EXTENT_INDEX = 25, EXT4_BT_EXTENT_LEAF = 26, EXT4_BT_DATA_BLOCK = 30, EXT4_BT_ACL_BLOCK = 31, }; bool ext4_block_valid(ext4_blk_t block, enum blocktype) { if (block < le32_to_cpu(EXT4_SB(sb)->s_es->s_first_data_block) + EXT4_SB(sb)->s_gdb_count)) || block >= ext4_blocks_count(EXT4_SB(sb)->s_es) return 0; return 1; } Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc. -- 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