This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ext4: reject inodes with negative size to the 4.9-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-reject-inodes-with-negative-size.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 7e6e1ef48fc02f3ac5d0edecbb0c6087cd758d58 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2016 09:55:01 -0500 Subject: ext4: reject inodes with negative size From: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 7e6e1ef48fc02f3ac5d0edecbb0c6087cd758d58 upstream. Don't load an inode with a negative size; this causes integer overflow problems in the VFS. [ Added EXT4_ERROR_INODE() to mark file system as corrupted. -TYT] Fixes: a48380f769df (ext4: rename i_dir_acl to i_size_high) Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/ext4/inode.c | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) --- a/fs/ext4/inode.c +++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c @@ -4434,6 +4434,7 @@ struct inode *ext4_iget(struct super_blo struct inode *inode; journal_t *journal = EXT4_SB(sb)->s_journal; long ret; + loff_t size; int block; uid_t i_uid; gid_t i_gid; @@ -4534,6 +4535,11 @@ struct inode *ext4_iget(struct super_blo ei->i_file_acl |= ((__u64)le16_to_cpu(raw_inode->i_file_acl_high)) << 32; inode->i_size = ext4_isize(raw_inode); + if ((size = i_size_read(inode)) < 0) { + EXT4_ERROR_INODE(inode, "bad i_size value: %lld", size); + ret = -EFSCORRUPTED; + goto bad_inode; + } ei->i_disksize = inode->i_size; #ifdef CONFIG_QUOTA ei->i_reserved_quota = 0; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from darrick.wong@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.9/ext4-reject-inodes-with-negative-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