3.2.96-rc1 review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Eryu Guan <guaneryu@xxxxxxxxx> commit 3a4b77cd47bb837b8557595ec7425f281f2ca1fe upstream. Ralf Spenneberg reported that he hit a kernel crash when mounting a modified ext4 image. And it turns out that kernel crashed when calculating fs overhead (ext4_calculate_overhead()), this is because the image has very large s_first_meta_bg (debug code shows it's 842150400), and ext4 overruns the memory in count_overhead() when setting bitmap buffer, which is PAGE_SIZE. ext4_calculate_overhead(): buf = get_zeroed_page(GFP_NOFS); <=== PAGE_SIZE buffer blks = count_overhead(sb, i, buf); count_overhead(): for (j = ext4_bg_num_gdb(sb, grp); j > 0; j--) { <=== j = 842150400 ext4_set_bit(EXT4_B2C(sbi, s++), buf); <=== buffer overrun count++; } This can be reproduced easily for me by this script: #!/bin/bash rm -f fs.img mkdir -p /mnt/ext4 fallocate -l 16M fs.img mke2fs -t ext4 -O bigalloc,meta_bg,^resize_inode -F fs.img debugfs -w -R "ssv first_meta_bg 842150400" fs.img mount -o loop fs.img /mnt/ext4 Fix it by validating s_first_meta_bg first at mount time, and refusing to mount if its value exceeds the largest possible meta_bg number. Reported-by: Ralf Spenneberg <ralf@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Eryu Guan <guaneryu@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@xxxxxxxxx> [bwh: Backported to 3.2: open-code ext4_has_feature_meta_bg()] Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/ext4/super.c | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) --- a/fs/ext4/super.c +++ b/fs/ext4/super.c @@ -3692,6 +3692,15 @@ static int ext4_fill_super(struct super_ (EXT4_MAX_BLOCK_FILE_PHYS / EXT4_BLOCKS_PER_GROUP(sb))); db_count = (sbi->s_groups_count + EXT4_DESC_PER_BLOCK(sb) - 1) / EXT4_DESC_PER_BLOCK(sb); + if (EXT4_HAS_INCOMPAT_FEATURE(sb, EXT4_FEATURE_INCOMPAT_META_BG)) { + if (le32_to_cpu(es->s_first_meta_bg) >= db_count) { + ext4_msg(sb, KERN_WARNING, + "first meta block group too large: %u " + "(group descriptor block count %u)", + le32_to_cpu(es->s_first_meta_bg), db_count); + goto failed_mount; + } + } sbi->s_group_desc = ext4_kvmalloc(db_count * sizeof(struct buffer_head *), GFP_KERNEL);