From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: From: Kamal Mostafa To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org, kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" , Kamal Mostafa Subject: [PATCH 3.8 038/124] ext4: avoid clearing beyond i_blocks when truncating an inline data file Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 11:39:38 -0800 Message-Id: <1392061264-28124-39-git-send-email-kamal@canonical.com> In-Reply-To: <1392061264-28124-1-git-send-email-kamal@canonical.com> References: <1392061264-28124-1-git-send-email-kamal@canonical.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 3.8.13.18 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Theodore Ts'o commit 09c455aaa8f47a94d5bafaa23d58365768210507 upstream. A missing cast means that when we are truncating a file which is less than 60 bytes, we don't clear the correct area of memory, and in fact we can end up truncating the next inode in the inode table, or worse yet, some other kernel data structure. Addresses-Coverity-Id: #751987 Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa --- fs/ext4/inline.c | 8 +++++--- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/ext4/inline.c b/fs/ext4/inline.c index f33fcb6..10816d2 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/inline.c +++ b/fs/ext4/inline.c @@ -1817,9 +1817,11 @@ void ext4_inline_data_truncate(struct inode *inode, int *has_inline) } /* Clear the content within i_blocks. */ - if (i_size < EXT4_MIN_INLINE_DATA_SIZE) - memset(ext4_raw_inode(&is.iloc)->i_block + i_size, 0, - EXT4_MIN_INLINE_DATA_SIZE - i_size); + if (i_size < EXT4_MIN_INLINE_DATA_SIZE) { + void *p = (void *) ext4_raw_inode(&is.iloc)->i_block; + memset(p + i_size, 0, + EXT4_MIN_INLINE_DATA_SIZE - i_size); + } EXT4_I(inode)->i_inline_size = i_size < EXT4_MIN_INLINE_DATA_SIZE ? -- 1.8.3.2