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Date:   Sat, 9 Jul 2022 11:31:44 -0600
From:   Andreas Dilger <adilger@...ger.ca>
To:     Lukas Czerner <lczerner@...hat.com>
Cc:     Ext4 Developers List <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>,
        Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>, stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] ext4: check if directory block is within i_size

On Jul 4, 2022, at 8:27 AM, Lukas Czerner <lczerner@...hat.com> wrote:
> 
> Currently ext4 directory handling code implicitly assumes that the
> directory blocks are always within the i_size. In fact ext4_append()
> will attempt to allocate next directory block based solely on i_size and
> the i_size is then appropriately increased after a successful
> allocation.
> 
> However, for this to work it requires i_size to be correct. If, for any
> reason, the directory inode i_size is corrupted in a way that the
> directory tree refers to a valid directory block past i_size, we could
> end up corrupting parts of the directory tree structure by overwriting
> already used directory blocks when modifying the directory.
> 
> Fix it by catching the corruption early in __ext4_read_dirblock().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@...hat.com>

Reviewed-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@...ger.ca>

> Addresses Red-Hat-Bugzilla: #2070205
> Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
> ---
> fs/ext4/namei.c | 7 +++++++
> 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/ext4/namei.c b/fs/ext4/namei.c
> index db4ba99d1ceb..cf460aa4f81d 100644
> --- a/fs/ext4/namei.c
> +++ b/fs/ext4/namei.c
> @@ -110,6 +110,13 @@ static struct buffer_head *__ext4_read_dirblock(struct inode *inode,
> 	struct ext4_dir_entry *dirent;
> 	int is_dx_block = 0;
> 
> +	if (block >= inode->i_size) {
> +		ext4_error_inode(inode, func, line, block,
> +		       "Attempting to read directory block (%u) that is past i_size (%llu)",
> +		       block, inode->i_size);
> +		return ERR_PTR(-EFSCORRUPTED);
> +	}
> +
> 	if (ext4_simulate_fail(inode->i_sb, EXT4_SIM_DIRBLOCK_EIO))
> 		bh = ERR_PTR(-EIO);
> 	else
> --
> 2.35.3
> 


Cheers, Andreas






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