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From: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Cc: Andreas Dilger <adilger@clusterfs.com>,
	linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, Jim Garlick <garlick@llnl.gov>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] added sanity check for xattr validation
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2007 02:23:10 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070622062310.GB17097@thunk.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <467AE49D.6030207@redhat.com>

On Thu, Jun 21, 2007 at 03:50:37PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> Andreas Dilger wrote:
> > Ted,
> > the attached patch adds an extra validity test in check_ext_attr().  If
> > an attribute's e_value_size is zero the current code does not allocate
> > a region for it and as a result the e_value_offs value is not verified.
> > However, if e_value_offs is very large then the later call to
> > ext2fs_ext_attr_hash_entry() can dereference bad memory and crash e2fsck.
> 
> Did this patch get lost?  Don't see it in Hg...

Thanks, I just committed it.

						-Ted

      reply	other threads:[~2007-06-22  6:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-02-26 22:33 [PATCH] added sanity check for xattr validation Andreas Dilger
2007-06-21 20:50 ` Eric Sandeen
2007-06-22  6:23   ` Theodore Tso [this message]

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