From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: "Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@oracle.com>, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] jbd2: fix r_count overflows leading to buffer overflow in journal recovery
Date: Thu, 14 May 2015 19:12:42 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150514231242.GD3901@thunk.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150514204826.GA17985@quack.suse.cz>
On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 10:48:26PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
> On Thu 14-05-15 12:34:24, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> > The journal revoke block recovery code does not check r_count for
> > sanity, which means that an evil value of r_count could result in
> > the kernel reading off the end of the revoke table and into whatever
> > garbage lies beyond. This could crash the kernel, so fix that.
> >
> > However, in testing this fix, I discovered that the code to write
> > out the revoke tables also was not correctly checking to see if the
> > block was full -- the current offset check is fine so long as the
> > revoke table space size is a multiple of the record size, but this
> > is not true when either journal_csum_v[23] are set.
> >
> > v2: The comparison on the revoke block writer code should allow the
> > revoke block to become totally full.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
> Looks good. You can add:
> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Thanks, applied.
- Ted
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-05-14 19:34 [PATCH v2] jbd2: fix r_count overflows leading to buffer overflow in journal recovery Darrick J. Wong
2015-05-14 20:48 ` Jan Kara
2015-05-14 23:12 ` Theodore Ts'o [this message]
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