If a block is out of range in ext4_get_branch(), -ENOMEM will be returned to user-space. Obviously, this error code isn't really useful. This patch fixes it by making sure the right error code (-EFSCORRUPTED) is propagated to user-space. EUCLEAN is more informative than ENOMEM. Signed-off-by: Luís Henriques <lhenriques@xxxxxxx> --- Hi Ted! Just a note: this patch, as you suggested, is taken from the patch with message-id 20221011155623.14840-1-lhenriques@xxxxxxx . Cheers, -- Luís fs/ext4/indirect.c | 9 ++++++++- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/ext4/indirect.c b/fs/ext4/indirect.c index 860fc5119009..c68bebe7ff4b 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/indirect.c +++ b/fs/ext4/indirect.c @@ -148,6 +148,7 @@ static Indirect *ext4_get_branch(struct inode *inode, int depth, struct super_block *sb = inode->i_sb; Indirect *p = chain; struct buffer_head *bh; + unsigned int key; int ret = -EIO; *err = 0; @@ -156,7 +157,13 @@ static Indirect *ext4_get_branch(struct inode *inode, int depth, if (!p->key) goto no_block; while (--depth) { - bh = sb_getblk(sb, le32_to_cpu(p->key)); + key = le32_to_cpu(p->key); + if (key > ext4_blocks_count(EXT4_SB(sb)->s_es)) { + /* the block was out of range */ + ret = -EFSCORRUPTED; + goto failure; + } + bh = sb_getblk(sb, key); if (unlikely(!bh)) { ret = -ENOMEM; goto failure;