Mounting a fuzzed ext4 image on a recent linus/master I see the following warning: [ 2.370000] ------------[ cut here ]------------ [ 2.370000] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 1005 at mm/page_alloc.c:2989 __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x1afe/0x1d90() [ 2.370000] Kernel panic - not syncing: panic_on_warn set ... [ 2.370000] [ 2.370000] CPU: 0 PID: 1005 Comm: ext4.exe Not tainted 4.4.0-rc4 #1 [ 2.370000] Stack: [ 2.370000] e0eed440 601097ab 00000000 6187e780 [ 2.370000] 611ba838 601ada46 e0eed460 60acf851 [ 2.370000] 60acf814 60aef320 e0eed580 601ad587 [ 2.370000] Call Trace: [ 2.370000] [<6005852e>] show_stack+0x1fe/0x430 [ 2.370000] [<60acf851>] dump_stack+0x3d/0x4c [ 2.370000] [<601ad587>] panic+0x206/0x5be [ 2.370000] [<60089923>] warn_slowpath_common+0x1e3/0x1f0 [ 2.370000] [<60089b84>] warn_slowpath_null+0x34/0x40 [ 2.370000] [<601c48ce>] __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x1afe/0x1d90 [ 2.370000] [<601c4f0f>] alloc_kmem_pages+0x2f/0x40 [ 2.370000] [<601f6e12>] kmalloc_order+0x32/0xc0 [ 2.370000] [<60246270>] __kmalloc+0x340/0x450 [ 2.370000] [<604469b4>] ext4_find_extent+0x3e4/0x6b0 [ 2.370000] [<60450074>] ext4_ext_map_blocks+0x84/0x2770 [ 2.370000] [<603fb68b>] ext4_map_blocks+0xfb/0xd80 [ 2.370000] [<603fc442>] _ext4_get_block+0x132/0x3c0 [ 2.370000] [<603fd3ab>] ext4_get_block+0x2b/0x40 [...] This is mm/page_alloc.c:2989 __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x1afe/0x1d90(): if (order >= MAX_ORDER) { WARN_ON_ONCE(!(gfp_mask & __GFP_NOWARN)); and the call into the memory allocator is coming from ext4_find_extent(): if (!path) { /* account possible depth increase */ path = kzalloc(sizeof(struct ext4_ext_path) * (depth + 2), GFP_NOFS); The problem is that the 'depth' variable is a plain 'short', whereas the value from the inode is a unsigned 16-bit number; in my case, its value was -3328. Simply changing the depth variable to be unsigned short is not advisable, as that could still break on edge cases like 0xffff in the subsequent loop without extra care. Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Quentin Casasnovas <quentin.casasnovas@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx --- fs/ext4/extents.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git fs/ext4/extents.c fs/ext4/extents.c index 551353b..a069cff 100644 --- fs/ext4/extents.c +++ fs/ext4/extents.c @@ -863,7 +863,7 @@ ext4_find_extent(struct inode *inode, ext4_lblk_t block, struct ext4_extent_header *eh; struct buffer_head *bh; struct ext4_ext_path *path = orig_path ? *orig_path : NULL; - short int depth, i, ppos = 0; + int depth, i, ppos = 0; int ret; eh = ext_inode_hdr(inode); -- 1.9.1 -- 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