Currently ext4 directory handling code implicitly assumes that the
directory blocks are always within the i_size. In fact ext4_append()
will attempt to allocate next directory block based solely on i_size and
the i_size is then appropriately increased after a successful
allocation.
However, for this to work it requires i_size to be correct. If, for any
reason, the directory inode i_size is corrupted in a way that the
directory tree refers to a valid directory block past i_size, we could
end up corrupting parts of the directory tree structure by overwriting
already used directory blocks when modifying the directory.
Fix it by catching the corruption early in __ext4_read_dirblock().
Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@xxxxxxxxxx>
Addresses Red-Hat-Bugzilla: #2070205
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
---
fs/ext4/namei.c | 7 +++++++
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
diff --git a/fs/ext4/namei.c b/fs/ext4/namei.c
index db4ba99d1ceb..cf460aa4f81d 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/namei.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/namei.c
@@ -110,6 +110,13 @@ static struct buffer_head *__ext4_read_dirblock(struct inode *inode,
struct ext4_dir_entry *dirent;
int is_dx_block = 0;
+ if (block >= inode->i_size) {
+ ext4_error_inode(inode, func, line, block,
+ "Attempting to read directory block (%u) that is past i_size (%llu)",
+ block, inode->i_size);
+ return ERR_PTR(-EFSCORRUPTED);
+ }
+
if (ext4_simulate_fail(inode->i_sb, EXT4_SIM_DIRBLOCK_EIO))
bh = ERR_PTR(-EIO);
else
--
2.35.3
