This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
ext4: fix crash when a directory's i_size is too small
to the 3.18-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-fix-crash-when-a-directory-s-i_size-is-too-small.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.18 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 9d5afec6b8bd46d6ed821aa1579634437f58ef1f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Chandan Rajendra <chandan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2017 15:00:57 -0500
Subject: ext4: fix crash when a directory's i_size is too small
From: Chandan Rajendra <chandan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
commit 9d5afec6b8bd46d6ed821aa1579634437f58ef1f upstream.
On a ppc64 machine, when mounting a fuzzed ext2 image (generated by
fsfuzzer) the following call trace is seen,
VFS: brelse: Trying to free free buffer
WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 6913 at /root/repos/linux/fs/buffer.c:1165 .__brelse.part.6+0x24/0x40
.__brelse.part.6+0x20/0x40 (unreliable)
.ext4_find_entry+0x384/0x4f0
.ext4_lookup+0x84/0x250
.lookup_slow+0xdc/0x230
.walk_component+0x268/0x400
.path_lookupat+0xec/0x2d0
.filename_lookup+0x9c/0x1d0
.vfs_statx+0x98/0x140
.SyS_newfstatat+0x48/0x80
system_call+0x58/0x6c
This happens because the directory that ext4_find_entry() looks up has
inode->i_size that is less than the block size of the filesystem. This
causes 'nblocks' to have a value of zero. ext4_bread_batch() ends up not
reading any of the directory file's blocks. This renders the entries in
bh_use[] array to continue to have garbage data. buffer_uptodate() on
bh_use[0] can then return a zero value upon which brelse() function is
invoked.
This commit fixes the bug by returning -ENOENT when the directory file
has no associated blocks.
Reported-by: Abdul Haleem <abdhalee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Chandan Rajendra <chandan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/ext4/namei.c | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
--- a/fs/ext4/namei.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/namei.c
@@ -1244,6 +1244,10 @@ static struct buffer_head * ext4_find_en
"falling back\n"));
}
nblocks = dir->i_size >> EXT4_BLOCK_SIZE_BITS(sb);
+ if (!nblocks) {
+ ret = NULL;
+ goto cleanup_and_exit;
+ }
start = EXT4_I(dir)->i_dir_start_lookup;
if (start >= nblocks)
start = 0;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from chandan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.18/ext4-fix-crash-when-a-directory-s-i_size-is-too-small.patch