Re: [PATCH 1/1] ext4: fix potential negative array index in do_split()

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



On Wed, Jun 17, 2020 at 02:19:04PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> If for any reason a directory passed to do_split() does not have enough
> active entries to exceed half the size of the block, we can end up
> iterating over all "count" entries without finding a split point.
> 
> In this case, count == move, and split will be zero, and we will
> attempt a negative index into map[].
> 
> Guard against this by detecting this case, and falling back to
> split-to-half-of-count instead; in this case we will still have
> plenty of space (> half blocksize) in each split block.
> 
> Fixes: ef2b02d3e617 ("ext34: ensure do_split leaves enough free space in both blocks")
> Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks, applied.

						- Ted



[Index of Archives]     [Reiser Filesystem Development]     [Ceph FS]     [Kernel Newbies]     [Security]     [Netfilter]     [Bugtraq]     [Linux FS]     [Yosemite National Park]     [MIPS Linux]     [ARM Linux]     [Linux Security]     [Linux RAID]     [Samba]     [Device Mapper]     [Linux Media]

  Powered by Linux