FAILED: patch "[PATCH] ext4: detect invalid INLINE_DATA + EXTENTS flag combination" failed to apply to 5.4-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

The patch below does not apply to the 5.4-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
id to <stable@vger.kernel.org>.

To reproduce the conflict and resubmit, you may use the following commands:

git fetch https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/ linux-5.4.y
git checkout FETCH_HEAD
git cherry-pick -x 1d3ad183943b38eec2acf72a0ae98e635dc8456b
# <resolve conflicts, build, test, etc.>
git commit -s
git send-email --to '<stable@vger.kernel.org>' --in-reply-to '2025102009-dares-negligent-77e3@gregkh' --subject-prefix 'PATCH 5.4.y' HEAD^..

Possible dependencies:



thanks,

greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

From 1d3ad183943b38eec2acf72a0ae98e635dc8456b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Deepanshu Kartikey <kartikey406@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2025 16:58:10 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] ext4: detect invalid INLINE_DATA + EXTENTS flag combination

syzbot reported a BUG_ON in ext4_es_cache_extent() when opening a verity
file on a corrupted ext4 filesystem mounted without a journal.

The issue is that the filesystem has an inode with both the INLINE_DATA
and EXTENTS flags set:

    EXT4-fs error (device loop0): ext4_cache_extents:545: inode #15:
    comm syz.0.17: corrupted extent tree: lblk 0 < prev 66

Investigation revealed that the inode has both flags set:
    DEBUG: inode 15 - flag=1, i_inline_off=164, has_inline=1, extents_flag=1

This is an invalid combination since an inode should have either:
- INLINE_DATA: data stored directly in the inode
- EXTENTS: data stored in extent-mapped blocks

Having both flags causes ext4_has_inline_data() to return true, skipping
extent tree validation in __ext4_iget(). The unvalidated out-of-order
extents then trigger a BUG_ON in ext4_es_cache_extent() due to integer
underflow when calculating hole sizes.

Fix this by detecting this invalid flag combination early in ext4_iget()
and rejecting the corrupted inode.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Reported-and-tested-by: syzbot+038b7bf43423e132b308@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=038b7bf43423e132b308
Suggested-by: Zhang Yi <yi.zhang@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Deepanshu Kartikey <kartikey406@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Zhang Yi <yi.zhang@huawei.com>
Message-ID: <20250930112810.315095-1-kartikey406@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>

diff --git a/fs/ext4/inode.c b/fs/ext4/inode.c
index f9e4ac87211e..e99306a8f47c 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/inode.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c
@@ -5319,6 +5319,14 @@ struct inode *__ext4_iget(struct super_block *sb, unsigned long ino,
 	}
 	ei->i_flags = le32_to_cpu(raw_inode->i_flags);
 	ext4_set_inode_flags(inode, true);
+	/* Detect invalid flag combination - can't have both inline data and extents */
+	if (ext4_test_inode_flag(inode, EXT4_INODE_INLINE_DATA) &&
+	    ext4_test_inode_flag(inode, EXT4_INODE_EXTENTS)) {
+		ext4_error_inode(inode, function, line, 0,
+			"inode has both inline data and extents flags");
+		ret = -EFSCORRUPTED;
+		goto bad_inode;
+	}
 	inode->i_blocks = ext4_inode_blocks(raw_inode, ei);
 	ei->i_file_acl = le32_to_cpu(raw_inode->i_file_acl_lo);
 	if (ext4_has_feature_64bit(sb))