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From: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Roman Zippel andr <zippel@linux-m68k.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] hfs: fix oops on mount with corrupted btree extent records
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 10:13:10 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AD48AF6.1010700@suse.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <14762.1255407123@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>

On 10/13/2009 12:12 AM, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Oct 2009 20:41:37 EDT, Jeff Mahoney said:
>>  A particular fsfuzzer run caused an hfs file system to crash on mount. This
>>  is due to a corrupted MDB extent record causing a miscalculation of
>>  HFS_I(inode)->first_blocks for the extent tree. If the extent records
>>  are zereod out, it won't trigger the first_blocks special case. Instead
>>  it falls through to the extent code which we're still in the middle
>>  of initializing.
>>
>>  This patch catches the 0 size extent records, reports the corruption,
>>  and fails the mount.
> 
> Just for completeness - does the current fsck.hfs already know how to fix it, or
> at least heave stuff over the side so the filesystem is self-consistent again?
> Or will a user who hits this need a new fsck.hfs to get it back to mountable?

Sorry, I don't actually know. We don't ship a fsck.hfs so I haven't
tested it.

-Jeff

-- 
Jeff Mahoney
SUSE Labs

      reply	other threads:[~2009-10-13 14:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-10-13  0:41 [PATCH] hfs: fix oops on mount with corrupted btree extent records Jeff Mahoney
2009-10-13  4:12 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2009-10-13 14:13   ` Jeff Mahoney [this message]

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