Re: [PATCH v4] erofs: support superblock checksum

[Gao Xiang <gaoxiang25@huawei.com>]

Hi Chao,

On Wed, Oct 23, 2019 at 04:15:29PM +0800, Chao Yu wrote:
> Hi, Xiang, Pratik,
> 
> On 2019/10/23 12:05, Gao Xiang wrote:

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> >  }
> >  
> > +static int erofs_superblock_csum_verify(struct super_block *sb, void *sbdata)
> > +{
> > +	struct erofs_super_block *dsb;
> > +	u32 expected_crc, nblocks, crc;
> > +	void *kaddr;
> > +	struct page *page;
> > +	int i;
> > +
> > +	dsb = kmemdup(sbdata + EROFS_SUPER_OFFSET,
> > +		      EROFS_BLKSIZ - EROFS_SUPER_OFFSET, GFP_KERNEL);
> > +	if (!dsb)
> > +		return -ENOMEM;
> > +
> > +	expected_crc = le32_to_cpu(dsb->checksum);
> > +	nblocks = le32_to_cpu(dsb->chksum_blocks);
> 
> Now, we try to use nblocks's value before checking its validation, I guess fuzz
> test can easily make the value extreme larger, result in checking latter blocks
> unnecessarily.
> 
> IMO, we'd better
> 1. check validation of superblock to make sure all fields in sb are valid
> 2. use .nblocks to count and check payload blocks following sb

That is quite a good point. :-)

My first thought is to check the following payloads of sb (e.g, some per-fs
metadata should be checked at mount time together. or for small images, check
the whole image at the mount time) as well since if we introduce a new feature
to some kernel version, forward compatibility needs to be considered. So it's
better to make proper scalability, for this case, we have some choices:
 1) limit `chksum_blocks' upbound at runtime (e.g. refuse >= 65536 blocks,
    totally 256M.)
 2) just get rid of the whole `chksum_blocks' mess and checksum the first 4k
    at all, don't consider any latter scalability.

Some perferred idea about this? I plan to release erofs-utils v1.0 tomorrow
and hold up this feature for the next erofs-utils release, but I think we can
get it ready for v5.5 since it is not quite complex feature...

Thanks,
Gao Xiang