[PATCH 4.14 080/164] ext4: always initialize the crc32c checksum driver

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Sun Apr 22 2018 - 11:26:12 EST


4.14-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx>

commit a45403b51582a87872927a3e0fc0a389c26867f1 upstream.

The extended attribute code now uses the crc32c checksum for hashing
purposes, so we should just always always initialize it. We also want
to prevent NULL pointer dereferences if one of the metadata checksum
features is enabled after the file sytsem is originally mounted.

This issue has been assigned CVE-2018-1094.

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=199183
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1560788

Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx>
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
fs/ext4/super.c | 15 ++++++---------
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

--- a/fs/ext4/super.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/super.c
@@ -3490,15 +3490,12 @@ static int ext4_fill_super(struct super_
}

/* Load the checksum driver */
- if (ext4_has_feature_metadata_csum(sb) ||
- ext4_has_feature_ea_inode(sb)) {
- sbi->s_chksum_driver = crypto_alloc_shash("crc32c", 0, 0);
- if (IS_ERR(sbi->s_chksum_driver)) {
- ext4_msg(sb, KERN_ERR, "Cannot load crc32c driver.");
- ret = PTR_ERR(sbi->s_chksum_driver);
- sbi->s_chksum_driver = NULL;
- goto failed_mount;
- }
+ sbi->s_chksum_driver = crypto_alloc_shash("crc32c", 0, 0);
+ if (IS_ERR(sbi->s_chksum_driver)) {
+ ext4_msg(sb, KERN_ERR, "Cannot load crc32c driver.");
+ ret = PTR_ERR(sbi->s_chksum_driver);
+ sbi->s_chksum_driver = NULL;
+ goto failed_mount;
}

/* Check superblock checksum */