linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH 2/4] ext4: fix in-superblock mount options processing

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Date:   Fri, 18 Nov 2016 12:27:33 -0800
From:   Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...gle.com>
To:     Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
Cc:     Ext4 Developers List <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>, kernel@...p.com,
        bp@...en8.de, stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] ext4: fix in-superblock mount options processing

On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 01:38:40PM -0500, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> Fix a large number of problems with how we handle mount options in the
> superblock.  For one, if the string in the superblock is long enough
> that it is not null terminated, we could run off the end of the string
> and try to interpret superblocks fields as characters.  It's unlikely
> this will cause a security problem, but it could result in an invalid
> parse.  Also, parse_options is destructive to the string, so in some
> cases if there is a comma-separated string, it would be modified in
> the superblock.  (Fortunately it only happens on file systems with a
> 1k block size.)
> 
> Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
> Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org

Reviewed-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...gle.com>
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