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ext4: validate s_reserved_gdt_blocks on mount
authorTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Wed, 6 Jul 2016 00:01:52 +0000 (20:01 -0400)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Tue, 16 Aug 2016 07:35:00 +0000 (09:35 +0200)
commit9cfaab733a0143f19de96c97c1876d56800478a4
tree642028b15675083b92506038f6aba6ef87509612
parentefc588bf340f52863f9faa30970928e829c1043a
ext4: validate s_reserved_gdt_blocks on mount

commit 5b9554dc5bf008ae7f68a52e3d7e76c0920938a2 upstream.

If s_reserved_gdt_blocks is extremely large, it's possible for
ext4_init_block_bitmap(), which is called when ext4 sets up an
uninitialized block bitmap, to corrupt random kernel memory.  Add the
same checks which e2fsck has --- it must never be larger than
blocksize / sizeof(__u32) --- and then add a backup check in
ext4_init_block_bitmap() in case the superblock gets modified after
the file system is mounted.

Reported-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
fs/ext4/balloc.c
fs/ext4/super.c