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 8cdb5240ec5928b20490a2bb34cb87e9a5f40226 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2018 15:40:48 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] ext4: never move the system.data xattr out of the inode body When expanding the extra isize space, we must never move the system.data xattr out of the inode body. For performance reasons, it doesn't make any sense, and the inline data implementation assumes that system.data xattr is never in the external xattr block. This addresses CVE-2018-10880 https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=200005 Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxx diff --git a/fs/ext4/xattr.c b/fs/ext4/xattr.c index 0263692979ec..72377b77fbd7 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/xattr.c +++ b/fs/ext4/xattr.c @@ -2657,6 +2657,11 @@ static int ext4_xattr_make_inode_space(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode, last = IFIRST(header); /* Find the entry best suited to be pushed into EA block */ for (; !IS_LAST_ENTRY(last); last = EXT4_XATTR_NEXT(last)) { + /* never move system.data out of the inode */ + if ((last->e_name_len == 4) && + (last->e_name_index == EXT4_XATTR_INDEX_SYSTEM) && + !memcmp(last->e_name, "data", 4)) + continue; total_size = EXT4_XATTR_LEN(last->e_name_len); if (!last->e_value_inum) total_size += EXT4_XATTR_SIZE(