linux-kernel - [PATCH 4.9 65/95] ext4: dont allow r/w mounts if metadata blocks overlap the superblock

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Date:   Sun, 22 Apr 2018 15:53:34 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>,
        Harsh Shandilya <harsh@...kt.io>
Subject: [PATCH 4.9 65/95] ext4: dont allow r/w mounts if metadata blocks overlap the superblock

4.9-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>

commit 18db4b4e6fc31eda838dd1c1296d67dbcb3dc957 upstream.

If some metadata block, such as an allocation bitmap, overlaps the
superblock, it's very likely that if the file system is mounted
read/write, the results will not be pretty.  So disallow r/w mounts
for file systems corrupted in this particular way.

Backport notes:
3.18.y is missing bc98a42c1f7d ("VFS: Convert sb->s_flags & MS_RDONLY to sb_rdonly(sb)")
and e462ec50cb5f ("VFS: Differentiate mount flags (MS_*) from internal superblock flags")
so we simply use the sb MS_RDONLY check from pre bc98a42c1f7d in place of the sb_rdonly
function used in the upstream variant of the patch.

Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Harsh Shandilya <harsh@...kt.io>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
---
 fs/ext4/super.c |    6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

--- a/fs/ext4/super.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/super.c
@@ -2260,6 +2260,8 @@ static int ext4_check_descriptors(struct
 			ext4_msg(sb, KERN_ERR, "ext4_check_descriptors: "
 				 "Block bitmap for group %u overlaps "
 				 "superblock", i);
+			if (!(sb->s_flags & MS_RDONLY))
+				return 0;
 		}
 		if (block_bitmap < first_block || block_bitmap > last_block) {
 			ext4_msg(sb, KERN_ERR, "ext4_check_descriptors: "
@@ -2272,6 +2274,8 @@ static int ext4_check_descriptors(struct
 			ext4_msg(sb, KERN_ERR, "ext4_check_descriptors: "
 				 "Inode bitmap for group %u overlaps "
 				 "superblock", i);
+			if (!(sb->s_flags & MS_RDONLY))
+				return 0;
 		}
 		if (inode_bitmap < first_block || inode_bitmap > last_block) {
 			ext4_msg(sb, KERN_ERR, "ext4_check_descriptors: "
@@ -2284,6 +2288,8 @@ static int ext4_check_descriptors(struct
 			ext4_msg(sb, KERN_ERR, "ext4_check_descriptors: "
 				 "Inode table for group %u overlaps "
 				 "superblock", i);
+			if (!(sb->s_flags & MS_RDONLY))
+				return 0;
 		}
 		if (inode_table < first_block ||
 		    inode_table + sbi->s_itb_per_group - 1 > last_block) {