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sanity check attr fork size

PATCH In review Christoph Hellwig 2 participants 2 messages Jan 4, 2009 XFS filesystem

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PATCH 1/1 sanity check attr fork size

Recently we have quite a few kerneloops reports about dereferencing a NULL if_data in the attribute fork. From looking over the code this can only happen if we pass a 0 size argument to xfs_iformat_local. This implies some sort of corruption and in fact the only mailinglist report about this from earlier this year was after a powerfail presumably on a system with write cache and without barriers.

Add a quick sanity check for the attr fork size in xfs_iformat to catch these early and without an oops.

fs/xfs/xfs_inode.c +13 -0
Index: linux-2.6/fs/xfs/xfs_inode.c
===================================================================
@@ -424,6 +424,19 @@ xfs_iformat(
 	case XFS_DINODE_FMT_LOCAL:
 		atp = (xfs_attr_shortform_t *)XFS_DFORK_APTR(dip);
 		size = be16_to_cpu(atp->hdr.totsize);
+
+		if (unlikely(size < sizeof(struct xfs_attr_sf_hdr))) {
+			xfs_fs_repair_cmn_err(CE_WARN, ip->i_mount,
+				"corrupt inode %Lu "
+				"(bad attr fork size %Ld).",
+				(unsigned long long) ip->i_ino,
+				(long long) size);
+			XFS_CORRUPTION_ERROR("xfs_iformat(8)",
+					     XFS_ERRLEVEL_LOW,
+					     ip->i_mount, dip);
+			return XFS_ERROR(EFSCORRUPTED);
+		}
+
 		error = xfs_iformat_local(ip, dip, XFS_ATTR_FORK, size);
 		break;
 	case XFS_DINODE_FMT_EXTENTS:

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Quoted 9 lines · Christoph Hellwig

Recently we have quite a few kerneloops reports about dereferencing a NULL if_data in the attribute fork. From looking over the code this can only happen if we pass a 0 size argument to xfs_iformat_local. This implies some sort of corruption and in fact the only mailinglist report about this from earlier this year was after a powerfail presumably on a system with write cache and without barriers.

Add a quick sanity check for the attr fork size in xfs_iformat to catch these early and without an oops.

Looks sane to me.

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