When mounting a crafted ext4 image, s_journal_inum may change after journal replay, which is obviously unreasonable because we have successfully loaded and replayed the journal through the old s_journal_inum. And the new s_journal_inum bypasses some of the checks in ext4_get_journal(), which may trigger a null pointer dereference problem. So if s_journal_inum changes after the journal replay, we ignore the change, and rewrite the current journal_inum to the superblock. Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=216541 Reported-by: Luís Henriques <lhenriques@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Baokun Li <libaokun1@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> --- fs/ext4/super.c | 7 +++++-- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/ext4/super.c b/fs/ext4/super.c index 260c1b3e3ef2..3fe9dc19ff9c 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/super.c +++ b/fs/ext4/super.c @@ -5953,8 +5953,11 @@ static int ext4_load_journal(struct super_block *sb, if (!really_read_only && journal_devnum && journal_devnum != le32_to_cpu(es->s_journal_dev)) { es->s_journal_dev = cpu_to_le32(journal_devnum); - - /* Make sure we flush the recovery flag to disk. */ + ext4_commit_super(sb); + } + if (!really_read_only && journal_inum && + journal_inum != le32_to_cpu(es->s_journal_inum)) { + es->s_journal_inum = cpu_to_le32(journal_inum); ext4_commit_super(sb); } -- 2.31.1