This patch adds an extra checks in ext4_mb_mark_bb() function to make sure we mark & report error if we were to mark/clear any of the critical FS metadata specific bitmaps (&bail out) to prevent from any accidental corruption. Signed-off-by: Ritesh Harjani <riteshh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/ext4/mballoc.c | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c index 5f20e355d08c..c94888534caa 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c +++ b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c @@ -3920,6 +3920,13 @@ void ext4_mb_mark_bb(struct super_block *sb, ext4_fsblk_t block, len -= overflow; } + if (!ext4_group_block_valid(sb, group, block, len)) { + ext4_error(sb, "Marking blocks in system zone - " + "Block = %llu, len = %d", block, len); + bitmap_bh = NULL; + goto out_err; + } + clen = EXT4_NUM_B2C(sbi, len); bitmap_bh = ext4_read_block_bitmap(sb, group); -- 2.31.1