linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH] ext4: catch integer overflow in ext4_cache

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Message-ID: <8bfb84e8-8699-0206-bf31-8ad9877d1986@suse.com>
Date:   Wed, 15 Jul 2020 19:25:59 +0200
From:   Wolfgang Frisch <wolfgang.frisch@...e.com>
To:     Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>, Ritesh Harjani <riteshh@...ux.ibm.com>
Cc:     Ted Tso <tytso@....edu>, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext4: catch integer overflow in ext4_cache_extents

On 14/07/2020 14.31, Jan Kara wrote:
> On Mon 13-07-20 19:14:47, Ritesh Harjani wrote:
>> On 7/13/20 6:28 PM, Jan Kara wrote:
>>> From: Wolfgang Frisch <wolfgang.frisch@...e.com>
>>>
>>> When extent tree is corrupted we can hit BUG_ON in
>>> ext4_es_cache_extent(). Check for this and abort caching instead of
>>> crashing the machine.
>>
>> Was it intentionally made corrupted by crafting a corrupted disk image?
> 
> I'm not sure how Wolfgang hit the issue. I'd expect some fs image
> fuzzing... Wolfgang?The bug was discovered accidentally when we tried to use a physically
defective USB flash drive. It was possible to partition and format the
device but the subsequent mount operation unearthed this problem.

As it was impossible to image the defective drive entirely, I used
blktrace(8) to gather a minimal list of read operations executed by
mount . A script then copied just the necessary blocks from the device
into a sparse QCOW2 image that is attached to the original bug report [1].

>> Are there more such logic in place which checks for such corruption at other
>> places?
> 
> That's a good question. But now that I'm looking at it ext4_ext_check()
> should actually catch a corruption like this. It is only the path in
> ext4_find_extent()->ext4_cache_extents() that can face the issue so
> probably instead of a fix in ext4_cache_extents() we should rather add more
> careful extent info checks for the extents contained directly in the inode.
> I'll look into it.

That sounds very reasonable. I see you already implemented it!

Best regards
Wolfgang

[1] https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1173485

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