linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH] libext2fs: correctly subtract xattr blocks on bigalloc filesystems

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:   Wed, 24 May 2017 21:54:01 -0400
From:   Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To:     Eric Biggers <ebiggers3@...il.com>
Cc:     linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] libext2fs: correctly subtract xattr blocks on bigalloc
 filesystems

On Sat, May 20, 2017 at 11:23:03PM -0700, Eric Biggers wrote:
> From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...gle.com>
> 
> ext2fs_inode_data_blocks2() calculates an inode's data block count by
> subtracting the external xattr block, if any, from the total blocks.
> But on bigalloc filesystems, the xattr "block" is actually a whole
> cluster, so ext2fs_inode_data_blocks2() would return a too-large value.
> 
> It seems this could have caused several different problems, but the one
> I encountered was that xfstest generic/399 failed in the "bigalloc"
> config because e2fsck incorrectly considered a symlink on the filesystem
> to be corrupted at the end of the test.  This happened because e2fsck
> incorrectly calculated a nonzero data block count for a "fast" symlink
> with an external xattr block and therefore treated it as a "slow"
> symlink, which failed validation.
> 
> Fix this by updating ext2fs_inode_data_blocks2() to subtract the cluster
> size rather than the block size.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...gle.com>

Thanks, applied.

						- Ted