linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH] ext4: reject inodes with negative size

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Message-ID: <20161210145525.pnrwrz37fyyz3327@thunk.org>
Date:   Sat, 10 Dec 2016 09:55:25 -0500
From:   Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To:     "Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@...cle.com>
Cc:     linux-ext4 <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext4: reject inodes with negative size

On Tue, Dec 06, 2016 at 03:57:40PM -0800, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> Don't load an inode with a negative size; this causes integer overflow
> problems in the VFS.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@...cle.com>

Thanks, applied.  I added a call to EXT4_ERROR_INODE() so the file
system would be marked corrupted.

				- Ted
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