The patch titled Subject: fat: don't allow to mount if the FAT length == 0 has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is fat-dont-allow-to-mount-if-the-fat-length-==-0.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/fat-dont-allow-to-mount-if-the-fat-length-%3D%3D-0.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/fat-dont-allow-to-mount-if-the-fat-length-%3D%3D-0.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/process/submit-checklist.rst when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: fat: don't allow to mount if the FAT length == 0 If FAT length == 0, the image doesn't have any data. And it can be the cause of overlapping the root dir and FAT entries. Also Windows treats it as invalid format. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/87r1wz8mrd.fsf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Reported-by: syzbot+6f1624f937d9d6911e2d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Marco Elver <elver@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/fat/inode.c | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) --- a/fs/fat/inode.c~fat-dont-allow-to-mount-if-the-fat-length-==-0 +++ a/fs/fat/inode.c @@ -1520,6 +1520,12 @@ static int fat_read_bpb(struct super_blo goto out; } + if (bpb->fat_fat_length == 0 && bpb->fat32_length == 0) { + if (!silent) + fat_msg(sb, KERN_ERR, "bogus number of FAT sectors"); + goto out; + } + error = 0; out: _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from hirofumi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are fat-dont-allow-to-mount-if-the-fat-length-==-0.patch