[PATCH] forgotten ->b_data in memcpy() call in ext3/resize.c (oopsable)

From: Al Viro
Date: Wed Apr 26 2006 - 02:26:14 EST


sbi->s_group_desc is an array of pointers to buffer_head. memcpy() of
buffer size from address of buffer_head is a bad idea - it will generate
junk in any case, may oops if buffer_head is close to the end of slab
page and next page is not mapped and isn't what was intended there.
IOW, ->b_data is missing in that call. Fortunately, result doesn't go
into the primary on-disk data structures, so only backup ones get crap
written to them; that had allowed this bug to remain unnoticed until
now.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---

fs/ext3/resize.c | 2 +-
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

e26179ed6fdd952b91a313a275191ae97bcd4d71
diff --git a/fs/ext3/resize.c b/fs/ext3/resize.c
index c5ffa85..8aac533 100644
--- a/fs/ext3/resize.c
+++ b/fs/ext3/resize.c
@@ -213,7 +213,7 @@ static int setup_new_group_blocks(struct
goto exit_bh;
}
lock_buffer(bh);
- memcpy(gdb->b_data, sbi->s_group_desc[i], bh->b_size);
+ memcpy(gdb->b_data, sbi->s_group_desc[i]->b_data, bh->b_size);
set_buffer_uptodate(gdb);
unlock_buffer(bh);
ext3_journal_dirty_metadata(handle, gdb);
--
1.3.0.g0080f

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