The patch below does not apply to the 4.4-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.
thanks,
greg k-h
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From: Theodore Ts'o tytso@mit.edu Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2018 19:35:02 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] ext4: fix false negatives *and* false positives in ext4_check_descriptors()
Ext4_check_descriptors() was getting called before s_gdb_count was initialized. So for file systems w/o the meta_bg feature, allocation bitmaps could overlap the block group descriptors and ext4 wouldn't notice.
For file systems with the meta_bg feature enabled, there was a fencepost error which would cause the ext4_check_descriptors() to incorrectly believe that the block allocation bitmap overlaps with the block group descriptor blocks, and it would reject the mount.
Fix both of these problems.
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o tytso@mit.edu Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
diff --git a/fs/ext4/super.c b/fs/ext4/super.c index ba2396a7bd04..eff5c983e067 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/super.c +++ b/fs/ext4/super.c @@ -2342,7 +2342,7 @@ static int ext4_check_descriptors(struct super_block *sb, struct ext4_sb_info *sbi = EXT4_SB(sb); ext4_fsblk_t first_block = le32_to_cpu(sbi->s_es->s_first_data_block); ext4_fsblk_t last_block; - ext4_fsblk_t last_bg_block = sb_block + ext4_bg_num_gdb(sb, 0) + 1; + ext4_fsblk_t last_bg_block = sb_block + ext4_bg_num_gdb(sb, 0); ext4_fsblk_t block_bitmap; ext4_fsblk_t inode_bitmap; ext4_fsblk_t inode_table; @@ -4085,14 +4085,13 @@ static int ext4_fill_super(struct super_block *sb, void *data, int silent) goto failed_mount2; } } + sbi->s_gdb_count = db_count; if (!ext4_check_descriptors(sb, logical_sb_block, &first_not_zeroed)) { ext4_msg(sb, KERN_ERR, "group descriptors corrupted!"); ret = -EFSCORRUPTED; goto failed_mount2; }
- sbi->s_gdb_count = db_count; - timer_setup(&sbi->s_err_report, print_daily_error_info, 0);
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