Due to on disk corruption, it can happen that journal is too short. Fail to load it in such case so that we don't oops somewhere later. Reported-by: Nageswara R Sastry <rnsastry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> --- fs/jbd/journal.c | 6 ++++++ 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/jbd/journal.c b/fs/jbd/journal.c index 737f724..94a64a1 100644 --- a/fs/jbd/journal.c +++ b/fs/jbd/journal.c @@ -848,6 +848,12 @@ static int journal_reset(journal_t *journal) first = be32_to_cpu(sb->s_first); last = be32_to_cpu(sb->s_maxlen); + if (first + JFS_MIN_JOURNAL_BLOCKS > last + 1) { + printk(KERN_ERR "JBD: Journal too short (blocks %lu-%lu).\n", + first, last); + journal_fail_superblock(journal); + return -EINVAL; + } journal->j_first = first; journal->j_last = last; -- 1.6.0.2 -- 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