This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled fat: fix using uninitialized fields of fat_inode/fsinfo_inode to the 4.10-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: fat-fix-using-uninitialized-fields-of-fat_inode-fsinfo_inode.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.10 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From c0d0e351285161a515396b7b1ee53ec9ffd97e3c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2017 16:17:37 -0800 Subject: fat: fix using uninitialized fields of fat_inode/fsinfo_inode From: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit c0d0e351285161a515396b7b1ee53ec9ffd97e3c upstream. Recently fallocate patch was merged and it uses MSDOS_I(inode)->mmu_private at fat_evict_inode(). However, fat_inode/fsinfo_inode that was introduced in past didn't initialize MSDOS_I(inode) properly. With those combinations, it became the cause of accessing random entry in FAT area. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/87pohrj4i8.fsf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reported-by: Moreno Bartalucci <moreno.bartalucci@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Tested-by: Moreno Bartalucci <moreno.bartalucci@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/fat/inode.c | 13 ++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/fs/fat/inode.c +++ b/fs/fat/inode.c @@ -1359,6 +1359,16 @@ out: return 0; } +static void fat_dummy_inode_init(struct inode *inode) +{ + /* Initialize this dummy inode to work as no-op. */ + MSDOS_I(inode)->mmu_private = 0; + MSDOS_I(inode)->i_start = 0; + MSDOS_I(inode)->i_logstart = 0; + MSDOS_I(inode)->i_attrs = 0; + MSDOS_I(inode)->i_pos = 0; +} + static int fat_read_root(struct inode *inode) { struct msdos_sb_info *sbi = MSDOS_SB(inode->i_sb); @@ -1803,12 +1813,13 @@ int fat_fill_super(struct super_block *s fat_inode = new_inode(sb); if (!fat_inode) goto out_fail; - MSDOS_I(fat_inode)->i_pos = 0; + fat_dummy_inode_init(fat_inode); sbi->fat_inode = fat_inode; fsinfo_inode = new_inode(sb); if (!fsinfo_inode) goto out_fail; + fat_dummy_inode_init(fsinfo_inode); fsinfo_inode->i_ino = MSDOS_FSINFO_INO; sbi->fsinfo_inode = fsinfo_inode; insert_inode_hash(fsinfo_inode); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from hirofumi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.10/fat-fix-using-uninitialized-fields-of-fat_inode-fsinfo_inode.patch