linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH] libext2fs: fix off-by-one bug in ext2fs_extent

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Date:	Thu, 16 Jan 2014 01:43:23 -0500
From:	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To:	Ext4 Developers List <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] libext2fs: fix off-by-one bug in ext2fs_extent_insert()

Here is a fixed up commit description, since there were a number of
typo's in the original.

					- Ted

commit 07f47fa2c755c139d26fd9fe2ac652d7cda04491
Author: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
Date:   Wed Jan 15 23:29:21 2014 -0500

    libext2fs: fix off-by-one bug in ext2fs_extent_insert()
    
    When inserting the first extent into an empty inode, the
    ext2fs_extent_insert() leaves path->left set to 1 instead of 0.  Since
    path->curr is pointing at the last (only) extent in the file,
    path->left should be 0.
    
    This is mostly harmless, and gets corrected fairly quickly if the
    calling applicaton jumps to a different part of the extent tree ---
    for example, by calling ext2fs_extent_goto(), or calling
    ext2fs_extent_get with the flags argument set to EXT2_EXTENT_ROOT.
    Which is why we hadn't noticed this problem until now.
    
    However, if you insert four extents using ext2fs_extent_insert, the
    fourth insert will end up copying too many bytes in the i_block[]
    array, since path->left is one larger than it should be.  This results
    in the inode fields i_generation, i_file_acl, and i_size_high getting
    zeroed out.
    
    This problem can be replicated as follows:
    
    % cp /dev/null /tmp/foo.img
    % mke2fs -F -t ext4 /tmp/foo.img 100
    % debugfs -w /tmp/foo.img
    debugfs: write /dev/null foo
    debugfs: set_inode_field foo i_size_hi 1
    debugfs: stat foo
     <----- note that the inode's size is 4294967296
    debugfs: extent_open foo
    debugfs (extent ino 12): insert --after 0 1 100
    debugfs (extent ino 12): insert --after 1 1 101
    debugfs (extent ino 12): insert --after 2 1 102
    debugfs (extent ino 12): insert --after 3 1 103
    debugfs (extent ino 12): extent_close
    debugfs: stat foo
     <----- note that the inode's size is now 0
    debugfs: quit
    
    Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>

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