[PATCH] ext4: Fix crash due to getting bogus eh_depth value

[PATCH] ext4: Fix crash due to getting bogus eh_depth value

[Paul Mackerras]

Commit 1939dd84b3 ("ext4: cleanup ext4_ext_grow_indepth code") added a
reference to ext4_extent_header.eh_depth, but forget to pass the value
read through le16_to_cpu.  The result is a crash on big-endian
machines, such as this crash on a POWER7 server:

attempt to access beyond end of device
sda8: rw=0, want=776392648163376, limit=168558560
Unable to handle kernel paging request for data at address 0x6b6b6b6b6b6b6bcb
Faulting instruction address: 0xc0000000001f5f38
cpu 0x14: Vector: 300 (Data Access) at [c000001bd1aaecf0]
    pc: c0000000001f5f38: .__brelse+0x18/0x60
    lr: c0000000002e07a4: .ext4_ext_drop_refs+0x44/0x80
    sp: c000001bd1aaef70
   msr: 9000000000009032
   dar: 6b6b6b6b6b6b6bcb
 dsisr: 40000000
  current = 0xc000001bd15b8010
  paca    = 0xc00000000ffe4600
    pid   = 19911, comm = flush-8:0
enter ? for help
[c000001bd1aaeff0] c0000000002e07a4 .ext4_ext_drop_refs+0x44/0x80
[c000001bd1aaf090] c0000000002e0c58 .ext4_ext_find_extent+0x408/0x4c0
[c000001bd1aaf180] c0000000002e145c .ext4_ext_insert_extent+0x2bc/0x14c0
[c000001bd1aaf2c0] c0000000002e3fb8 .ext4_ext_map_blocks+0x628/0x1710
[c000001bd1aaf420] c0000000002b2974 .ext4_map_blocks+0x224/0x310
[c000001bd1aaf4d0] c0000000002b7f2c .mpage_da_map_and_submit+0xbc/0x490
[c000001bd1aaf5a0] c0000000002b8688 .write_cache_pages_da+0x2c8/0x430
[c000001bd1aaf720] c0000000002b8b28 .ext4_da_writepages+0x338/0x670
[c000001bd1aaf8d0] c000000000157280 .do_writepages+0x40/0x90
[c000001bd1aaf940] c0000000001ea830 .writeback_single_inode+0xe0/0x530
[c000001bd1aafa00] c0000000001eb680 .writeback_sb_inodes+0x210/0x300
[c000001bd1aafb20] c0000000001ebc84 .__writeback_inodes_wb+0xd4/0x140
[c000001bd1aafbe0] c0000000001ebfec .wb_writeback+0x2fc/0x3e0
[c000001bd1aafce0] c0000000001ed770 .wb_do_writeback+0x2f0/0x300
[c000001bd1aafdf0] c0000000001ed848 .bdi_writeback_thread+0xc8/0x340
[c000001bd1aafed0] c0000000000c5494 .kthread+0xb4/0xc0
[c000001bd1aaff90] c000000000021f48 .kernel_thread+0x54/0x70

This is due to getting ext_depth(inode) == 0x101 and therefore running
off the end of the path array in ext4_ext_drop_refs into following
unallocated structures.

This fixes it by adding the necessary le16_to_cpu.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
---
diff --git a/fs/ext4/extents.c b/fs/ext4/extents.c
index 61fa9e1..61cdb97 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/extents.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/extents.c
@@ -1095,7 +1095,7 @@ static int ext4_ext_grow_indepth(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode,
 		  le32_to_cpu(EXT_FIRST_INDEX(neh)->ei_block),
 		  ext4_idx_pblock(EXT_FIRST_INDEX(neh)));
 
-	neh->eh_depth = cpu_to_le16(neh->eh_depth + 1);
+	neh->eh_depth = cpu_to_le16(le16_to_cpu(neh->eh_depth) + 1);
 	ext4_mark_inode_dirty(handle, inode);
 out:
 	brelse(bh);

Re: [PATCH] ext4: Fix crash due to getting bogus eh_depth value

[Ted Ts'o]

On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 09:49:52PM +1100, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> Commit 1939dd84b3 ("ext4: cleanup ext4_ext_grow_indepth code") added a
> reference to ext4_extent_header.eh_depth, but forget to pass the value
> read through le16_to_cpu.  The result is a crash on big-endian
> machines, such as this crash on a POWER7 server:

Thanks for finding this!  While I was driving to work I had started
thinking that 0x0101 was a very suspicious number, and I was thinking
that it might have been a missing byte swap somewhere.

I'll get this pushed to Linus ASAP as a regression fix.

     	      				- Ted