From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: mm-commits@vger.kernel.org,stable@vger.kernel.org,piaojun@huawei.com,mark@fasheh.com,junxiao.bi@oracle.com,joseph.qi@linux.alibaba.com,jlbec@evilplan.org,heming.zhao@suse.com,gechangwei@live.cn,michael.bommarito@gmail.com,akpm@linux-foundation.org
Subject: [merged mm-nonmm-stable] ocfs2-reject-dinodes-with-non-canonical-i_mode-type.patch removed from -mm tree
Date: Thu, 28 May 2026 21:27:13 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260529042713.E72D41F00893@smtp.kernel.org> (raw)
The quilt patch titled
Subject: ocfs2: reject dinodes with non-canonical i_mode type
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
ocfs2-reject-dinodes-with-non-canonical-i_mode-type.patch
This patch was dropped because it was merged into the mm-nonmm-stable branch
of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
------------------------------------------------------
From: Michael Bommarito <michael.bommarito@gmail.com>
Subject: ocfs2: reject dinodes with non-canonical i_mode type
Date: Tue, 19 May 2026 07:04:02 -0400
Patch series "ocfs2: harden inode validators against forged metadata", v2.
This series adds three structural checks to OCFS2 dinode validation so
malformed on-disk fields are rejected before ocfs2_populate_inode() copies
them into the in-core inode.
The checks cover:
- i_mode values whose type bits do not name a canonical POSIX file
type;
- non-device dinodes whose id1.dev1.i_rdev field is non-zero; and
- non-inline dinodes that claim non-zero i_size while i_clusters is
zero, covering directories unconditionally and regular files on
non-sparse volumes.
The normal read path reports these through ocfs2_error(), matching the
existing suballoc-slot, inline-data, chain-list, and refcount checks. The
online filecheck path uses the same structural predicates but keeps its
own reporting contract, returning OCFS2_FILECHECK_ERR_INVALIDINO instead
of calling ocfs2_error().
This patch (of 3):
ocfs2_validate_inode_block() currently accepts any non-zero i_mode value.
ocfs2_populate_inode() then copies that mode verbatim into inode->i_mode
and dispatches on i_mode & S_IFMT to the file/dir/symlink/special_file
iops; an unrecognised type falls through to ocfs2_special_file_iops and
init_special_inode().
Reject dinodes whose type bits do not name one of the seven canonical
POSIX file types. Use fs_umode_to_ftype(), the same generic file-type
conversion helper OCFS2 already uses for directory entries, so the
accepted inode type set matches the kernel file-type vocabulary instead of
open-coding a local switch.
Apply the same structural check to the online filecheck read path.
filecheck keeps its own error namespace, so it reports malformed i_mode
through the filecheck logger and OCFS2_FILECHECK_ERR_INVALIDINO instead of
calling ocfs2_error(), but it must not allow a malformed dinode to proceed
into ocfs2_populate_inode().
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260519110404.1803902-1-michael.bommarito@gmail.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260519110404.1803902-2-michael.bommarito@gmail.com
Fixes: b657c95c1108 ("ocfs2: Wrap inode block reads in a dedicated function.")
Signed-off-by: Michael Bommarito <michael.bommarito@gmail.com>
Link: https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260517111015.3187935-1-michael.bommarito%40gmail.com
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
Reviewed-by: Joseph Qi <joseph.qi@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Changwei Ge <gechangwei@live.cn>
Cc: Heming Zhao <heming.zhao@suse.com>
Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>
Cc: Jun Piao <piaojun@huawei.com>
Cc: Junxiao Bi <junxiao.bi@oracle.com>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mark@fasheh.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---
fs/ocfs2/inode.c | 36 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
1 file changed, 34 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/fs/ocfs2/inode.c~ocfs2-reject-dinodes-with-non-canonical-i_mode-type
+++ a/fs/ocfs2/inode.c
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
#include <linux/pagemap.h>
#include <linux/quotaops.h>
#include <linux/iversion.h>
+#include <linux/fs_dirent.h>
#include <asm/byteorder.h>
@@ -64,7 +65,12 @@ static int ocfs2_filecheck_read_inode_bl
static int ocfs2_filecheck_validate_inode_block(struct super_block *sb,
struct buffer_head *bh);
static int ocfs2_filecheck_repair_inode_block(struct super_block *sb,
- struct buffer_head *bh);
+ struct buffer_head *bh);
+
+static bool ocfs2_valid_inode_mode(umode_t mode)
+{
+ return fs_umode_to_ftype(mode) != FT_UNKNOWN;
+}
void ocfs2_set_inode_flags(struct inode *inode)
{
@@ -1494,6 +1500,24 @@ int ocfs2_validate_inode_block(struct su
goto bail;
}
+ /*
+ * Reject dinodes whose i_mode does not name one of the seven
+ * canonical POSIX file types. ocfs2_populate_inode() copies
+ * i_mode verbatim into inode->i_mode and then dispatches via
+ * switch (mode & S_IFMT) to file/dir/symlink/special_file iops;
+ * an unrecognised type falls into ocfs2_special_file_iops with
+ * init_special_inode(), which interprets i_rdev. Constrain the
+ * type here so the dispatch only ever sees a value mkfs.ocfs2 /
+ * VFS can produce.
+ */
+ if (!ocfs2_valid_inode_mode(le16_to_cpu(di->i_mode))) {
+ rc = ocfs2_error(sb,
+ "Invalid dinode #%llu: mode 0%o has unknown file type\n",
+ (unsigned long long)bh->b_blocknr,
+ le16_to_cpu(di->i_mode));
+ goto bail;
+ }
+
if (le16_to_cpu(di->i_dyn_features) & OCFS2_INLINE_DATA_FL) {
struct ocfs2_inline_data *data = &di->id2.i_data;
@@ -1624,6 +1648,15 @@ static int ocfs2_filecheck_validate_inod
(unsigned long long)bh->b_blocknr,
le32_to_cpu(di->i_fs_generation));
rc = -OCFS2_FILECHECK_ERR_GENERATION;
+ goto bail;
+ }
+
+ if (!ocfs2_valid_inode_mode(le16_to_cpu(di->i_mode))) {
+ mlog(ML_ERROR,
+ "Filecheck: invalid dinode #%llu: mode 0%o has unknown file type\n",
+ (unsigned long long)bh->b_blocknr,
+ le16_to_cpu(di->i_mode));
+ rc = -OCFS2_FILECHECK_ERR_INVALIDINO;
}
bail:
@@ -1812,4 +1845,3 @@ const struct ocfs2_caching_operations oc
.co_io_lock = ocfs2_inode_cache_io_lock,
.co_io_unlock = ocfs2_inode_cache_io_unlock,
};
-
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from michael.bommarito@gmail.com are
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