The patch below does not apply to the 4.4-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
id to <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>.
thanks,
greg k-h
------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------
>From 18db4b4e6fc31eda838dd1c1296d67dbcb3dc957 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2018 22:10:35 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] ext4: don't allow r/w mounts if metadata blocks overlap the
superblock
If some metadata block, such as an allocation bitmap, overlaps the
superblock, it's very likely that if the file system is mounted
read/write, the results will not be pretty. So disallow r/w mounts
for file systems corrupted in this particular way.
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx>
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
diff --git a/fs/ext4/super.c b/fs/ext4/super.c
index 7cd022c344d1..edcfe6956eba 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/super.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/super.c
@@ -2335,6 +2335,8 @@ static int ext4_check_descriptors(struct super_block *sb,
ext4_msg(sb, KERN_ERR, "ext4_check_descriptors: "
"Block bitmap for group %u overlaps "
"superblock", i);
+ if (!sb_rdonly(sb))
+ return 0;
}
if (block_bitmap < first_block || block_bitmap > last_block) {
ext4_msg(sb, KERN_ERR, "ext4_check_descriptors: "
@@ -2347,6 +2349,8 @@ static int ext4_check_descriptors(struct super_block *sb,
ext4_msg(sb, KERN_ERR, "ext4_check_descriptors: "
"Inode bitmap for group %u overlaps "
"superblock", i);
+ if (!sb_rdonly(sb))
+ return 0;
}
if (inode_bitmap < first_block || inode_bitmap > last_block) {
ext4_msg(sb, KERN_ERR, "ext4_check_descriptors: "
@@ -2359,6 +2363,8 @@ static int ext4_check_descriptors(struct super_block *sb,
ext4_msg(sb, KERN_ERR, "ext4_check_descriptors: "
"Inode table for group %u overlaps "
"superblock", i);
+ if (!sb_rdonly(sb))
+ return 0;
}
if (inode_table < first_block ||
inode_table + sbi->s_itb_per_group - 1 > last_block) {