+ ocfs2-validate-inline-xattr-header-before-checking-outside-values.patch added to mm-nonmm-unstable branch

[Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>]

The patch titled
     Subject: ocfs2: validate inline xattr header before checking outside values
has been added to the -mm mm-nonmm-unstable branch.  Its filename is
     ocfs2-validate-inline-xattr-header-before-checking-outside-values.patch

This patch will shortly appear at
     https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/ocfs2-validate-inline-xattr-header-before-checking-outside-values.patch

This patch will later appear in the mm-nonmm-unstable branch at
    git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

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From: ZhengYuan Huang <gality369@gmail.com>
Subject: ocfs2: validate inline xattr header before checking outside values
Date: Fri, 8 May 2026 16:59:11 +0800

[BUG]
A corrupt inline xattr header can make
ocfs2_has_inline_xattr_value_outside() walk xh_count from an unchecked
header while refcount-tree teardown decides whether inline xattrs still
point outside the inode body.

[CAUSE]
ocfs2_has_inline_xattr_value_outside() still computed the inline header
directly from di->i_xattr_inline_size and immediately iterated xh_count.
That is the same unchecked metadata boundary as the ibody lookup bug.

[FIX]
Reuse the shared inline-header helper before iterating xh_count. Because
this helper returns a boolean-style answer to its caller, treat a corrupt
header conservatively as "has outside values" instead of walking it.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260508085914.61647-3-gality369@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: ZhengYuan Huang <gality369@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Joseph Qi <joseph.qi@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Changwei Ge <gechangwei@live.cn>
Cc: Heming Zhao <heming.zhao@suse.com>
Cc: Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@gmail.com>
Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>
Cc: Jun Piao <piaojun@huawei.com>
Cc: Junxiao Bi <junxiao.bi@oracle.com>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mark@fasheh.com>
Cc: Zixuan Fu <r33s3n6@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

 fs/ocfs2/xattr.c |    7 ++++---
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

--- a/fs/ocfs2/xattr.c~ocfs2-validate-inline-xattr-header-before-checking-outside-values
+++ a/fs/ocfs2/xattr.c
@@ -989,11 +989,12 @@ int ocfs2_has_inline_xattr_value_outside
 					 struct ocfs2_dinode *di)
 {
 	struct ocfs2_xattr_header *xh;
+	int ret;
 	int i;
 
-	xh = (struct ocfs2_xattr_header *)
-		 ((void *)di + inode->i_sb->s_blocksize -
-		 le16_to_cpu(di->i_xattr_inline_size));
+	ret = ocfs2_xattr_ibody_lookup_header(inode, di, &xh);
+	if (ret)
+		return 1;
 
 	for (i = 0; i < le16_to_cpu(xh->xh_count); i++)
 		if (!ocfs2_xattr_is_local(&xh->xh_entries[i]))
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from gality369@gmail.com are

ocfs2-reject-inconsistent-inode-size-before-truncate.patch
ocfs2-dont-bug_on-an-invalid-journal-dinode.patch
ocfs2-validate-inline-xattr-header-before-ibody-lookups.patch
ocfs2-validate-inline-xattr-header-before-checking-outside-values.patch
ocfs2-validate-inline-xattr-header-before-ibody-remove.patch
ocfs2-validate-inline-xattr-header-before-inline-refcount-attach.patch
ocfs2-validate-inline-xattr-header-before-reflinking-inline-xattrs.patch