Re: [PATCH 1/1] f2fs: fix validation of the block count in sanity_check_raw_super

[Chao Yu]

On 2018/12/22 3:28, Martin Blumenstingl wrote:
> Treat "block_count" from struct f2fs_super_block as 64-bit little endian
> value in sanity_check_raw_super() because struct f2fs_super_block
> declares "block_count" as "__le64".
> 
> This fixes a bug where the superblock validation fails on big endian
> devices with the following error:
>   F2FS-fs (sda1): Wrong segment_count / block_count (61439 > 0)
>   F2FS-fs (sda1): Can't find valid F2FS filesystem in 1th superblock
>   F2FS-fs (sda1): Wrong segment_count / block_count (61439 > 0)
>   F2FS-fs (sda1): Can't find valid F2FS filesystem in 2th superblock
> As result of this the partition cannot be mounted.
> 
> With this patch applied the superblock validation works fine and the
> partition can be mounted again:
>   F2FS-fs (sda1): Mounted with checkpoint version = 7c84
> 
> My little endian x86-64 hardware was able to mount the partition without
> this fix.
> To confirm that mounting f2fs filesystems works on big endian machines
> again I tested this on a 32-bit MIPS big endian (lantiq) device.
> 
> Fixes: 0cfe75c5b01199 ("f2fs: enhance sanity_check_raw_super() to avoid potential overflows")
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Martin Blumenstingl <martin.blumenstingl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Chao Yu <yuchao0@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks,