Re: [PATCH 2/2] ext4: update s_journal_inum if it changes after journal replay

From: Jan Kara
Date: Fri Jan 06 2023 - 09:36:29 EST


On Fri 06-01-23 18:47:06, Baokun Li wrote:
> When mounting a crafted ext4 image, s_journal_inum may change after journal
> replay, which is obviously unreasonable because we have successfully loaded
> and replayed the journal through the old s_journal_inum. And the new
> s_journal_inum bypasses some of the checks in ext4_get_journal(), which
> may trigger a null pointer dereference problem. So if s_journal_inum
> changes after the journal replay, we ignore the change, and rewrite the
> current journal_inum to the superblock.
>
> Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=216541
> Reported-by: Luís Henriques <lhenriques@xxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Baokun Li <libaokun1@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> fs/ext4/super.c | 7 +++++--
> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Looks good. Feel free to add:

Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>

Honza


>
> diff --git a/fs/ext4/super.c b/fs/ext4/super.c
> index 260c1b3e3ef2..3fe9dc19ff9c 100644
> --- a/fs/ext4/super.c
> +++ b/fs/ext4/super.c
> @@ -5953,8 +5953,11 @@ static int ext4_load_journal(struct super_block *sb,
> if (!really_read_only && journal_devnum &&
> journal_devnum != le32_to_cpu(es->s_journal_dev)) {
> es->s_journal_dev = cpu_to_le32(journal_devnum);
> -
> - /* Make sure we flush the recovery flag to disk. */
> + ext4_commit_super(sb);
> + }
> + if (!really_read_only && journal_inum &&
> + journal_inum != le32_to_cpu(es->s_journal_inum)) {
> + es->s_journal_inum = cpu_to_le32(journal_inum);
> ext4_commit_super(sb);
> }
>
> --
> 2.31.1
>
--
Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxxx>
SUSE Labs, CR