ext4: don't allow r/w mounts if metadata blocks overlap the superblock
authorTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Fri, 30 Mar 2018 02:10:35 +0000 (22:10 -0400)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Tue, 24 Apr 2018 07:36:30 +0000 (09:36 +0200)
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.

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/super.c

index 1339a79..3a605c6 100644 (file)
@@ -2330,6 +2330,8 @@ static int ext4_check_descriptors(struct super_block *sb,
                        ext4_msg(sb, KERN_ERR, "ext4_check_descriptors: "
                                 "Block bitmap for group %u overlaps "
                                 "superblock", i);
+                       if (!sb_rdonly(sb))
+                               return 0;
                }
                if (block_bitmap < first_block || block_bitmap > last_block) {
                        ext4_msg(sb, KERN_ERR, "ext4_check_descriptors: "
@@ -2342,6 +2344,8 @@ static int ext4_check_descriptors(struct super_block *sb,
                        ext4_msg(sb, KERN_ERR, "ext4_check_descriptors: "
                                 "Inode bitmap for group %u overlaps "
                                 "superblock", i);
+                       if (!sb_rdonly(sb))
+                               return 0;
                }
                if (inode_bitmap < first_block || inode_bitmap > last_block) {
                        ext4_msg(sb, KERN_ERR, "ext4_check_descriptors: "
@@ -2354,6 +2358,8 @@ static int ext4_check_descriptors(struct super_block *sb,
                        ext4_msg(sb, KERN_ERR, "ext4_check_descriptors: "
                                 "Inode table for group %u overlaps "
                                 "superblock", i);
+                       if (!sb_rdonly(sb))
+                               return 0;
                }
                if (inode_table < first_block ||
                    inode_table + sbi->s_itb_per_group - 1 > last_block) {