This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ext4: correct grp validation in ext4_mb_good_group to the 6.4-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-correct-grp-validation-in-ext4_mb_good_group.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit cf719be06893ad5c23f5d7a4806f8c718ec7fe68 Author: Kemeng Shi <shikemeng@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue Aug 1 22:31:55 2023 +0800 ext4: correct grp validation in ext4_mb_good_group [ Upstream commit a9ce5993a0f5c0887c8a1b4ffa3b8046fbcfdc93 ] Group corruption check will access memory of grp and will trigger kernel crash if grp is NULL. So do NULL check before corruption check. Fixes: 5354b2af3406 ("ext4: allow ext4_get_group_info() to fail") Signed-off-by: Kemeng Shi <shikemeng@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Ritesh Harjani (IBM) <ritesh.list@xxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230801143204.2284343-2-shikemeng@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c index 3fa5de892d89d..98e12326b0d6a 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c +++ b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c @@ -2414,7 +2414,7 @@ static bool ext4_mb_good_group(struct ext4_allocation_context *ac, BUG_ON(cr < 0 || cr >= 4); - if (unlikely(EXT4_MB_GRP_BBITMAP_CORRUPT(grp) || !grp)) + if (unlikely(!grp || EXT4_MB_GRP_BBITMAP_CORRUPT(grp))) return false; free = grp->bb_free;