From: Ritesh Harjani (IBM) <ritesh.list@gmail.com>
To: guzebing <guzebing1612@gmail.com>, tytso@mit.edu
Cc: adilger.kernel@dilger.ca, libaokun@linux.alibaba.com,
jack@suse.cz, ojaswin@linux.ibm.com, yi.zhang@huawei.com,
linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
guzebing <guzebing1612@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext4: fix reserved group initialization
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2026 08:20:32 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <tsp1jrpj.ritesh.list@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260811021848.1821435-1-guzebing1612@gmail.com>
guzebing <guzebing1612@gmail.com> writes:
> ext4 initializes the in-memory reserved uid and gid from the on-disk
> default reserved id fields during mount. The s_resgid assignment
> accidentally uses ext4_get_resuid(), so the reserved group is initialized
> from the reserved uid instead of the reserved gid.
>
> As a result, members of the configured reserved group can be denied access
> to reserved blocks, while members of a group whose gid matches the
> reserved uid can be incorrectly allowed to use them.
>
> Initialize s_resgid with ext4_get_resgid() instead.
>
> Fixes: 12c84dd4d308 ("ext4: add support for 32-bit default reserved uid and gid values")
> Signed-off-by: guzebing <guzebing1612@gmail.com>
This was posted before [1] and looks it already landed in ext4's dev
branch [2].
[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260727104103.28916-1-liujiazi@amazon.com/
[2]: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4.git/commit/?h=dev&id=c87abbab6147dcc5aa1fd8f2a61734d58d8b99ec
-ritesh
> ---
> fs/ext4/super.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/ext4/super.c b/fs/ext4/super.c
> index 245f67d10ded3..63de62a75a543 100644
> --- a/fs/ext4/super.c
> +++ b/fs/ext4/super.c
> @@ -5369,7 +5369,7 @@ static int __ext4_fill_super(struct fs_context *fc, struct super_block *sb)
> ext4_set_def_opts(sb, es);
>
> sbi->s_resuid = make_kuid(&init_user_ns, ext4_get_resuid(es));
> - sbi->s_resgid = make_kgid(&init_user_ns, ext4_get_resuid(es));
> + sbi->s_resgid = make_kgid(&init_user_ns, ext4_get_resgid(es));
> sbi->s_commit_interval = JBD2_DEFAULT_MAX_COMMIT_AGE * HZ;
> sbi->s_min_batch_time = EXT4_DEF_MIN_BATCH_TIME;
> sbi->s_max_batch_time = EXT4_DEF_MAX_BATCH_TIME;
>
> base-commit: 06cf61899d6498b33e4b7c87d99d5bd471ccc375
> --
> 2.20.1
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-08-11 2:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-08-11 2:18 [PATCH] ext4: fix reserved group initialization guzebing
2026-08-11 2:50 ` Ritesh Harjani [this message]
2026-08-11 8:09 ` guzebing
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