ext4: add extra check in ext4_mb_mark_bb() to prevent against possible corruption
authorRitesh Harjani <riteshh@linux.ibm.com>
Wed, 16 Feb 2022 07:02:51 +0000 (12:32 +0530)
committerTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Sat, 26 Feb 2022 02:34:56 +0000 (21:34 -0500)
This patch adds an extra checks in ext4_mb_mark_bb() function
to make sure we mark & report error if we were to mark/clear any
of the critical FS metadata specific bitmaps (&bail out) to prevent
from any accidental corruption.

Suggested-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Ritesh Harjani <riteshh@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/53cbb6f2573db162a57f935365050d8b1df202ee.1644992610.git.riteshh@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
fs/ext4/mballoc.c

index 0a95bdb..5f0bc6d 100644 (file)
@@ -3918,6 +3918,14 @@ void ext4_mb_mark_bb(struct super_block *sb, ext4_fsblk_t block,
                        EXT4_BLOCKS_PER_GROUP(sb) - EXT4_C2B(sbi, blkoff));
                clen = EXT4_NUM_B2C(sbi, thisgrp_len);
 
+               if (!ext4_sb_block_valid(sb, NULL, block, thisgrp_len)) {
+                       ext4_error(sb, "Marking blocks in system zone - "
+                                  "Block = %llu, len = %u",
+                                  block, thisgrp_len);
+                       bitmap_bh = NULL;
+                       break;
+               }
+
                bitmap_bh = ext4_read_block_bitmap(sb, group);
                if (IS_ERR(bitmap_bh)) {
                        err = PTR_ERR(bitmap_bh);