This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ext4: Fix possible corruption when moving a directory to the 4.19-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: ext4-fix-possible-corruption-when-moving-a-directory.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.19 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 0813299c586b175d7edb25f56412c54b812d0379 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2023 12:22:21 +0100 Subject: ext4: Fix possible corruption when moving a directory From: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> commit 0813299c586b175d7edb25f56412c54b812d0379 upstream. When we are renaming a directory to a different directory, we need to update '..' entry in the moved directory. However nothing prevents moved directory from being modified and even converted from the inline format to the normal format. When such race happens the rename code gets confused and we crash. Fix the problem by locking the moved directory. CC: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fixes: 32f7f22c0b52 ("ext4: let ext4_rename handle inline dir") Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230126112221.11866-1-jack@xxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/ext4/namei.c | 11 ++++++++++- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/fs/ext4/namei.c +++ b/fs/ext4/namei.c @@ -3736,9 +3736,16 @@ static int ext4_rename(struct inode *old if (new.dir != old.dir && EXT4_DIR_LINK_MAX(new.dir)) goto end_rename; } + /* + * We need to protect against old.inode directory getting + * converted from inline directory format into a normal one. + */ + inode_lock_nested(old.inode, I_MUTEX_NONDIR2); retval = ext4_rename_dir_prepare(handle, &old); - if (retval) + if (retval) { + inode_unlock(old.inode); goto end_rename; + } } /* * If we're renaming a file within an inline_data dir and adding or @@ -3834,6 +3841,8 @@ end_rename: } else { ext4_journal_stop(handle); } + if (old.dir_bh) + inode_unlock(old.inode); release_bh: brelse(old.dir_bh); brelse(old.bh); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from jack@xxxxxxx are queue-4.19/udf-fix-file-corruption-when-appending-just-after-end-of-preallocated-extent.patch queue-4.19/udf-do-not-update-file-length-for-failed-writes-to-inline-files.patch queue-4.19/ext4-fix-possible-corruption-when-moving-a-directory.patch queue-4.19/udf-truncate-added-extents-on-failed-expansion.patch queue-4.19/udf-do-not-bother-merging-very-long-extents.patch queue-4.19/udf-define-efscorrupted-error-code.patch