linux-ext4 - [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.19 4/7] ext4: fail ext4

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Date:   Tue, 14 Mar 2023 08:44:21 -0400
From:   Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Baokun Li <libaokun1@...wei.com>,
        Luís Henriques <lhenriques@...e.de>,
        Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>, Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>,
        Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>, adilger.kernel@...ger.ca,
        linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.19 4/7] ext4: fail ext4_iget if special inode unallocated

From: Baokun Li <libaokun1@...wei.com>

[ Upstream commit 5cd740287ae5e3f9d1c46f5bfe8778972fd6d3fe ]

In ext4_fill_super(), EXT4_ORPHAN_FS flag is cleared after
ext4_orphan_cleanup() is executed. Therefore, when __ext4_iget() is
called to get an inode whose i_nlink is 0 when the flag exists, no error
is returned. If the inode is a special inode, a null pointer dereference
may occur. If the value of i_nlink is 0 for any inodes (except boot loader
inodes) got by using the EXT4_IGET_SPECIAL flag, the current file system
is corrupted. Therefore, make the ext4_iget() function return an error if
it gets such an abnormal special inode.

Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=199179
Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=216541
Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=216539
Reported-by: Luís Henriques <lhenriques@...e.de>
Suggested-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
Signed-off-by: Baokun Li <libaokun1@...wei.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230107032126.4165860-2-libaokun1@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
---
 fs/ext4/inode.c | 18 ++++++++----------
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/ext4/inode.c b/fs/ext4/inode.c
index 3c7bbdaa425a7..6f1a3d8a8e825 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/inode.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c
@@ -4942,13 +4942,6 @@ struct inode *__ext4_iget(struct super_block *sb, unsigned long ino,
 		goto bad_inode;
 	raw_inode = ext4_raw_inode(&iloc);
 
-	if ((ino == EXT4_ROOT_INO) && (raw_inode->i_links_count == 0)) {
-		ext4_error_inode(inode, function, line, 0,
-				 "iget: root inode unallocated");
-		ret = -EFSCORRUPTED;
-		goto bad_inode;
-	}
-
 	if ((flags & EXT4_IGET_HANDLE) &&
 	    (raw_inode->i_links_count == 0) && (raw_inode->i_mode == 0)) {
 		ret = -ESTALE;
@@ -5019,11 +5012,16 @@ struct inode *__ext4_iget(struct super_block *sb, unsigned long ino,
 	 * NeilBrown 1999oct15
 	 */
 	if (inode->i_nlink == 0) {
-		if ((inode->i_mode == 0 ||
+		if ((inode->i_mode == 0 || flags & EXT4_IGET_SPECIAL ||
 		     !(EXT4_SB(inode->i_sb)->s_mount_state & EXT4_ORPHAN_FS)) &&
 		    ino != EXT4_BOOT_LOADER_INO) {
-			/* this inode is deleted */
-			ret = -ESTALE;
+			/* this inode is deleted or unallocated */
+			if (flags & EXT4_IGET_SPECIAL) {
+				ext4_error_inode(inode, function, line, 0,
+						 "iget: special inode unallocated");
+				ret = -EFSCORRUPTED;
+			} else
+				ret = -ESTALE;
 			goto bad_inode;
 		}
 		/* The only unlinked inodes we let through here have
-- 
2.39.2