[PATCH] ext4: Forbid overflowing inode count when resizing

[PATCH] ext4: Forbid overflowing inode count when resizing

[Jan Kara]

ext4_resize_fs() has an off-by-one bug when checking whether growing of
a filesystem will not overflow inode count. As a result it allows a
filesystem with 8192 inodes per group to grow to 64TB which overflows
inode count to 0 and makes filesystem unusable. Fix it.

CC: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 3f8a6411fbada1fa482276591e037f3b1adcf55b
Reported-by: Jaco Kroon <jaco@uls.co.za>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
---
 fs/ext4/resize.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/ext4/resize.c b/fs/ext4/resize.c
index b6bec270a8e4..d792b7689d92 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/resize.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/resize.c
@@ -1933,7 +1933,7 @@ int ext4_resize_fs(struct super_block *sb, ext4_fsblk_t n_blocks_count)
 		return 0;
 
 	n_group = ext4_get_group_number(sb, n_blocks_count - 1);
-	if (n_group > (0xFFFFFFFFUL / EXT4_INODES_PER_GROUP(sb))) {
+	if (n_group >= (0xFFFFFFFFUL / EXT4_INODES_PER_GROUP(sb))) {
 		ext4_warning(sb, "resize would cause inodes_count overflow");
 		return -EINVAL;
 	}
-- 
2.13.6

Re: [PATCH] ext4: Forbid overflowing inode count when resizing

[Jaco Kroon]

Hi Jan,

To confirm, this would prevent you from resizing the filesystem
completely and put a limit on the max size.

Would another approach possibly be to make the additional blocks
available, but without allocating additional inodes by way of flex groups?

In other words, accept the resize below, but then lower down in the same
function where flex groups gets added, only add until the overflow would
occur.  Or make it overflow once, set number of inodes to 2^32-1 and
then stop adding more?  In my (and I'm betting most use-cases) this
would en up wasting 1 potential inode.

That way the resize can still proceed.

The check that is then currently tripping up userspace tools remain in
place, but will also allow for the special value of 2^32-1 if (and only
if) the calculation for what the number of inodes should be ends up
being greater than equal to 2^32 (would require special code to avoid
the wrap-around condition).  For the prevent overflow case the logic may
actually end up being marginally more complicated.

Would that make sense?  I'd be willing to attempt a patch, but I'll have
to check if I've got some way to actually test this somewhere.

If that does not make sense and a hard limit on the ext4 size based on
the inode count to size ratio is a given:


On 24/05/2018 13:36, Jan Kara wrote:
> ext4_resize_fs() has an off-by-one bug when checking whether growing of
> a filesystem will not overflow inode count. As a result it allows a
> filesystem with 8192 inodes per group to grow to 64TB which overflows
> inode count to 0 and makes filesystem unusable. Fix it.
>
> CC: stable@vger.kernel.org
> Fixes: 3f8a6411fbada1fa482276591e037f3b1adcf55b
> Reported-by: Jaco Kroon <jaco@uls.co.za>
> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Acked-By: Jaco Kroon <jaco@uls.co.za>
> ---
>  fs/ext4/resize.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/ext4/resize.c b/fs/ext4/resize.c
> index b6bec270a8e4..d792b7689d92 100644
> --- a/fs/ext4/resize.c
> +++ b/fs/ext4/resize.c
> @@ -1933,7 +1933,7 @@ int ext4_resize_fs(struct super_block *sb, ext4_fsblk_t n_blocks_count)
>  		return 0;
>  
>  	n_group = ext4_get_group_number(sb, n_blocks_count - 1);
> -	if (n_group > (0xFFFFFFFFUL / EXT4_INODES_PER_GROUP(sb))) {
> +	if (n_group >= (0xFFFFFFFFUL / EXT4_INODES_PER_GROUP(sb))) {
>  		ext4_warning(sb, "resize would cause inodes_count overflow");
>  		return -EINVAL;
>  	}

Re: [PATCH] ext4: Forbid overflowing inode count when resizing

[Jan Kara]

Hi Jaco,

On Thu 24-05-18 15:52:50, Jaco Kroon wrote:
> To confirm, this would prevent you from resizing the filesystem
> completely and put a limit on the max size.

Yes, but the limit was already there. There was just an off-by-one error in
the computation... So your filesystem was currently limited to 64TB but
with a fixed test it would be limited to 64TB - 128MB.

> Would another approach possibly be to make the additional blocks
> available, but without allocating additional inodes by way of flex groups?
> 
> In other words, accept the resize below, but then lower down in the same
> function where flex groups gets added, only add until the overflow would
> occur.  Or make it overflow once, set number of inodes to 2^32-1 and
> then stop adding more?  In my (and I'm betting most use-cases) this
> would en up wasting 1 potential inode.

So I don't think this is worth the complexity just to go up from 64TB-128MB
to 64TB. It would be reasonably doable and maybe worth it to allow
filesystems to grow arbitrarily by making groups that would overflow the
s_inodes_count limit just not have any inodes. But it would not be
completely trivial as there's quite some code (especially in e2fsprogs)
assuming that every group has the same amount of inodes and now we'd have
to teach all that code that there can be groups without inodes. So someone
would have to be dedicated enough to implement and test this. OTOH the code
is not *that* involved so if you wanted to try that, please go ahead.

								Honza

Re: [PATCH] ext4: Forbid overflowing inode count when resizing

[Andreas Dilger]

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On May 24, 2018, at 5:36 AM, Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> wrote:
> 
> ext4_resize_fs() has an off-by-one bug when checking whether growing of
> a filesystem will not overflow inode count. As a result it allows a
> filesystem with 8192 inodes per group to grow to 64TB which overflows
> inode count to 0 and makes filesystem unusable. Fix it.
> 
> CC: stable@vger.kernel.org
> Fixes: 3f8a6411fbada1fa482276591e037f3b1adcf55b
> Reported-by: Jaco Kroon <jaco@uls.co.za>
> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>

This should be enough to stop the filesystem from exploding.
We can look at more complex solutions in a separate patch.

Reviewed-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@dilger.ca>

> ---
> fs/ext4/resize.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/ext4/resize.c b/fs/ext4/resize.c
> index b6bec270a8e4..d792b7689d92 100644
> --- a/fs/ext4/resize.c
> +++ b/fs/ext4/resize.c
> @@ -1933,7 +1933,7 @@ int ext4_resize_fs(struct super_block *sb, ext4_fsblk_t n_blocks_count)
> 		return 0;
> 
> 	n_group = ext4_get_group_number(sb, n_blocks_count - 1);
> -	if (n_group > (0xFFFFFFFFUL / EXT4_INODES_PER_GROUP(sb))) {
> +	if (n_group >= (0xFFFFFFFFUL / EXT4_INODES_PER_GROUP(sb))) {
> 		ext4_warning(sb, "resize would cause inodes_count overflow");
> 		return -EINVAL;
> 	}
> --
> 2.13.6
> 


Cheers, Andreas






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Re: [PATCH] ext4: Forbid overflowing inode count when resizing

[Theodore Y. Ts'o]

On Thu, May 24, 2018 at 01:36:46PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
> ext4_resize_fs() has an off-by-one bug when checking whether growing of
> a filesystem will not overflow inode count. As a result it allows a
> filesystem with 8192 inodes per group to grow to 64TB which overflows
> inode count to 0 and makes filesystem unusable. Fix it.
> 
> CC: stable@vger.kernel.org
> Fixes: 3f8a6411fbada1fa482276591e037f3b1adcf55b
> Reported-by: Jaco Kroon <jaco@uls.co.za>
> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>

Applied, thanks.

				- Ted