Re: [PATCH] ext4: fix WARNING in lock_two_nondirectories

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On 2023/12/25 10:11, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
On Mon, Dec 25, 2023 at 09:38:51AM +0800, Baokun Li wrote:
Marking the boot loader inode as a bad inode here is useless,
EXT4_IGET_BAD allows us to get a bad boot loader inode.
In my opinion, it doesn't make sense to call lock_two_nondirectories()
here to determine if the inode is a regular file or not, since the logic
for dealing with non-regular files comes after the locking, so calling
lock_two_inodes() directly here will suffice.
This is all very silly, and why I consider this sort of thing pure
syzkaller noise.  It really doesn't protect against any real threat,
and it encourages people to put all sorts of random crud in kernel
code, all in the name of trying to shut up syzbot.
Indeed, the warning is meaningless, but it is undeniable that if the
user can easily trigger the warning, something is wrong with the code.
If we *are* going to care about shutting up syzkaller, the right
approach is to simply add a check in swap_inode_boot_loader() which
causes it to call ext4_error() and declare the file system corrupted
if the bootloader inode is not a regular file, and then return
-EFSCORRUPTED.

We don't need to add random hacks to ext4_iget(), or in other places...

    	      	     	    	     - Ted
Without considering the case where the boot loader inode is
uninitialized, I think this is fine and the logic to determine if the boot
loader inode is initialized and to initialize it can be removed.

Merry Christmas!
--
With Best Regards,
Baokun Li
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