The patch titled reiserfs: fix kernel panic on corrupted directory has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is reiserfs-fix-kernel-panic-on-corrupted-directory.patch *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: reiserfs: fix kernel panic on corrupted directory From: lepton <ytht.net@xxxxxxxxx> When reading corrupted reiserfs directory data, d_reclen could be a negative number or a big positive number, this can lead to kernel panic or oop. The following patch adds a sanity check. Signed-off-by: Lepton Wu <ytht.net@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@xxxxxxxx> Cc: "Vladimir V. Saveliev" <vs@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/reiserfs/dir.c | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) diff -puN fs/reiserfs/dir.c~reiserfs-fix-kernel-panic-on-corrupted-directory fs/reiserfs/dir.c --- a/fs/reiserfs/dir.c~reiserfs-fix-kernel-panic-on-corrupted-directory +++ a/fs/reiserfs/dir.c @@ -121,6 +121,16 @@ static int reiserfs_readdir(struct file continue; d_reclen = entry_length(bh, ih, entry_num); d_name = B_I_DEH_ENTRY_FILE_NAME(bh, ih, deh); + + if (d_reclen <= 0 || + d_name + d_reclen > bh->b_data + bh->b_size) { + /* There is corrupted data in entry, + * We'd better stop here */ + pathrelse(&path_to_entry); + ret = -EIO; + goto out; + } + if (!d_name[d_reclen - 1]) d_reclen = strlen(d_name); _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from ytht.net@xxxxxxxxx are reiserfs-fix-kernel-panic-on-corrupted-directory.patch - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html