This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ext4: add sanity checking to count_overhead() to the 4.4-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-add-sanity-checking-to-count_overhead.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From c48ae41bafe31e9a66d8be2ced4e42a6b57fa814 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2016 13:37:47 -0500 Subject: ext4: add sanity checking to count_overhead() From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> commit c48ae41bafe31e9a66d8be2ced4e42a6b57fa814 upstream. The commit "ext4: sanity check the block and cluster size at mount time" should prevent any problems, but in case the superblock is modified while the file system is mounted, add an extra safety check to make sure we won't overrun the allocated buffer. Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/ext4/super.c | 11 ++++++++--- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) --- a/fs/ext4/super.c +++ b/fs/ext4/super.c @@ -3037,10 +3037,15 @@ static int count_overhead(struct super_b ext4_set_bit(s++, buf); count++; } - for (j = ext4_bg_num_gdb(sb, grp); j > 0; j--) { - ext4_set_bit(EXT4_B2C(sbi, s++), buf); - count++; + j = ext4_bg_num_gdb(sb, grp); + if (s + j > EXT4_BLOCKS_PER_GROUP(sb)) { + ext4_error(sb, "Invalid number of block group " + "descriptor blocks: %d", j); + j = EXT4_BLOCKS_PER_GROUP(sb) - s; } + count += j; + for (; j > 0; j--) + ext4_set_bit(EXT4_B2C(sbi, s++), buf); } if (!count) return 0; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from tytso@xxxxxxx are queue-4.4/ext4-reject-inodes-with-negative-size.patch queue-4.4/ext4-fix-in-superblock-mount-options-processing.patch queue-4.4/ext4-fix-mballoc-breakage-with-64k-block-size.patch queue-4.4/ext4-do-not-perform-data-journaling-when-data-is-encrypted.patch queue-4.4/ext4-use-more-strict-checks-for-inodes_per_block-on-mount.patch queue-4.4/ext4-add-sanity-checking-to-count_overhead.patch queue-4.4/ext4-return-enomem-instead-of-success.patch queue-4.4/ext4-fix-stack-memory-corruption-with-64k-block-size.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html