2.6.29-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. ------------------ From: "Theodore Ts'o" (cherry picked from commit 563bdd61fe4dbd6b58cf7eb06f8d8f14479ae1dc) Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- fs/ext4/inode.c | 10 +++++++++- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/fs/ext4/inode.c +++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c @@ -4367,7 +4367,8 @@ struct inode *ext4_iget(struct super_blo inode->i_op = &ext4_symlink_inode_operations; ext4_set_aops(inode); } - } else { + } else if (S_ISCHR(inode->i_mode) || S_ISBLK(inode->i_mode) || + S_ISFIFO(inode->i_mode) || S_ISSOCK(inode->i_mode)) { inode->i_op = &ext4_special_inode_operations; if (raw_inode->i_block[0]) init_special_inode(inode, inode->i_mode, @@ -4375,6 +4376,13 @@ struct inode *ext4_iget(struct super_blo else init_special_inode(inode, inode->i_mode, new_decode_dev(le32_to_cpu(raw_inode->i_block[1]))); + } else { + brelse(bh); + ret = -EIO; + ext4_error(inode->i_sb, __func__, + "bogus i_mode (%o) for inode=%lu", + inode->i_mode, inode->i_ino); + goto bad_inode; } brelse(iloc.bh); ext4_set_inode_flags(inode); -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/