From: Joseph Qi <joseph.qi@linux.alibaba.com>
To: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, ocfs2-devel@lists.linux.dev,
Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>,
Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>,
Farhad Alemi <farhad.alemi@berkeley.edu>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] ocfs2: Refuse to enable ocfs2 format for another filesystem
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2026 09:36:51 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8d78e72c-a7f5-4b08-a249-34e924bda588@linux.alibaba.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260902133702.1313635-3-jack@suse.cz>
On 9/2/26 9:36 PM, Jan Kara wrote:
> It is possible to issue Q_QUOTAON quotactl(2) e.g. for ext4 filesystem
> requesting to enable quota using ocfs2 quota format. With suitable
> passed arguments this can get upto ocfs2_local_check_quota_file() where
> the passed superblock is from the ext4 filesystem and that can cause all
> sorts of interesting things, most likely crashes. As ocfs2 quotas are
> specific to ocfs2 filesystem, verify we are indeed enabling quotas
> there.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Joseph Qi <joseph.qi@linux.alibaba.com>
> ---
> fs/ocfs2/quota_local.c | 4 ++++
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/fs/ocfs2/quota_local.c b/fs/ocfs2/quota_local.c
> index f55810c59b1b..97dee8ee6096 100644
> --- a/fs/ocfs2/quota_local.c
> +++ b/fs/ocfs2/quota_local.c
> @@ -171,6 +171,10 @@ static int ocfs2_local_check_quota_file(struct super_block *sb, int type)
> struct ocfs2_disk_dqheader *dqhead;
> int status, ret = 0;
>
> + /* OCFS2 quota format is supported only for OCFS2 filesystems */
> + if (strcmp(sb->s_type->name, "ocfs2"))
> + goto out_err;
> +
> /* First check whether we understand local quota file */
> status = ocfs2_read_quota_block(linode, 0, &bh);
> if (status) {
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-09-03 1:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-09-02 13:36 [PATCH 0/2] quota: Verify special quota formats match sb type Jan Kara
2026-09-02 13:36 ` [PATCH 1/2] ocfs2: Refuse to enable ocfs2 format for another filesystem Jan Kara
2026-09-02 21:07 ` Mark Fasheh
2026-09-03 1:36 ` Joseph Qi [this message]
2026-09-02 13:37 ` [PATCH 2/2] shmem: Refuse to enable tmpfs " Jan Kara
2026-09-03 2:31 ` Hugh Dickins
2026-09-03 8:47 ` Jan Kara
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