From: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@xxxxxxxxxx> I accidentally tried to xfs_copy an ext4 filesystem, but instead of rejecting the filesystem, the program instead crashed. I figured out that zeroing the superblock was enough to trigger this: # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=1024k count=1 # xfs_copy /dev/sda /dev/sdb Floating point exception The exact crash happens in this line from libxfs_getbuf_flags, which is called from the main() routine of xfs_copy: if (btp == btp->bt_mount->m_ddev_targp) { (*bpp)->b_pag = xfs_perag_get(btp->bt_mount, xfs_daddr_to_agno(btp->bt_mount, blkno)); The problem here is that the uncached read filled the incore superblock with zeroes, which means mbuf.sb_agblocks is zero. This causes a division by zero in xfs_daddr_to_agno, thereby crashing the program. In commit f8b581d6, we made it so that xfs_buf structures contain a passive reference to the associated perag structure. That commit assumes that no program would try a cached buffer read until the buffer cache is fully set up, which is true throughout xfsprogs... except for the beginning of xfs_copy. For whatever reason, it attempts an uncached read of the superblock to figure out the real superblock size, then performs a *cached* read with the proper buffer length and verifier. The cached read crashes the program. Fix the problem by changing the (second) cached read into an uncached read. Fixes: f8b581d6 ("libxfs: actually make buffers track the per-ag structures") Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@xxxxxxxxxx> --- copy/xfs_copy.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/copy/xfs_copy.c b/copy/xfs_copy.c index 41f594bd..79f65946 100644 --- a/copy/xfs_copy.c +++ b/copy/xfs_copy.c @@ -748,7 +748,7 @@ main(int argc, char **argv) /* Do it again, now with proper length and verifier */ libxfs_buf_relse(sbp); - error = -libxfs_buf_read(mbuf.m_ddev_targp, XFS_SB_DADDR, + error = -libxfs_buf_read_uncached(mbuf.m_ddev_targp, XFS_SB_DADDR, 1 << (sb->sb_sectlog - BBSHIFT), 0, &sbp, &xfs_sb_buf_ops); if (error) {