ext4: fail ext4_iget for root directory if unallocated
authorTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Fri, 30 Mar 2018 01:56:09 +0000 (21:56 -0400)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Tue, 24 Apr 2018 07:34:12 +0000 (09:34 +0200)
commit6b289a7c34d72212bcd5a8ab9b6a657f2f44f0ee
treea28f2befc24019837aa8cddc2342f71515793661
parentc636feb8ffe56f1cc1fafce87a67b1020761d24d
ext4: fail ext4_iget for root directory if unallocated

commit 8e4b5eae5decd9dfe5a4ee369c22028f90ab4c44 upstream.

If the root directory has an i_links_count of zero, then when the file
system is mounted, then when ext4_fill_super() notices the problem and
tries to call iput() the root directory in the error return path,
ext4_evict_inode() will try to free the inode on disk, before all of
the file system structures are set up, and this will result in an OOPS
caused by a NULL pointer dereference.

This issue has been assigned CVE-2018-1092.

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=199179
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1560777

Reported-by: Wen Xu <wen.xu@gatech.edu>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
fs/ext4/inode.c