A malicious/clueless root user can use EXT4_IOC_SWAP_BOOT to force a corner casew which can lead to the file system getting corrupted. There's no usefulness to allowing this, so just prohibit this case. Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> --- fs/ext4/ioctl.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/fs/ext4/ioctl.c b/fs/ext4/ioctl.c index 2e76fb55d94a..eb8ca8d80885 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/ioctl.c +++ b/fs/ext4/ioctl.c @@ -132,6 +132,7 @@ static long swap_inode_boot_loader(struct super_block *sb, if (inode->i_nlink != 1 || !S_ISREG(inode->i_mode) || IS_SWAPFILE(inode) || IS_ENCRYPTED(inode) || + (EXT4_I(inode)->i_flags & EXT4_JOURNAL_DATA_FL) || ext4_has_inline_data(inode)) { err = -EINVAL; goto journal_err_out; -- 2.19.1