[PATCH 3.18 111/120] ext4: fix false negatives *and* false positives in ext4_check_descriptors()

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-10-11T15:41:26Z

From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>

commit 44de022c4382541cebdd6de4465d1f4f465ff1dd upstream.

Ext4_check_descriptors() was getting called before s_gdb_count was
initialized. So for file systems w/o the meta_bg feature, allocation
bitmaps could overlap the block group descriptors and ext4 wouldn't
notice.

For file systems with the meta_bg feature enabled, there was a
fencepost error which would cause the ext4_check_descriptors() to
incorrectly believe that the block allocation bitmap overlaps with the
block group descriptor blocks, and it would reject the mount.

Fix both of these problems.

Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
[bwh: Backported to 3.16: adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Hackmann <ghackmann@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
fs/ext4/super.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/fs/ext4/super.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/super.c
@@ -2064,7 +2064,7 @@ static int ext4_check_descriptors(struct
struct ext4_sb_info *sbi = EXT4_SB(sb);
ext4_fsblk_t first_block = le32_to_cpu(sbi->s_es->s_first_data_block);
ext4_fsblk_t last_block;
- ext4_fsblk_t last_bg_block = sb_block + ext4_bg_num_gdb(sb, 0) + 1;
+ ext4_fsblk_t last_bg_block = sb_block + ext4_bg_num_gdb(sb, 0);
ext4_fsblk_t block_bitmap;
ext4_fsblk_t inode_bitmap;
ext4_fsblk_t inode_table;
@@ -4018,12 +4018,12 @@ static int ext4_fill_super(struct super_
goto failed_mount2;
}
}
+ sbi->s_gdb_count = db_count;
if (!ext4_check_descriptors(sb, logical_sb_block, &first_not_zeroed)) {
ext4_msg(sb, KERN_ERR, "group descriptors corrupted!");
goto failed_mount2;
}

- sbi->s_gdb_count = db_count;
get_random_bytes(&sbi->s_next_generation, sizeof(u32));
spin_lock_init(&sbi->s_next_gen_lock);