[PATCH] ext4: fix WARNING in lock_two_nondirectories

From: Edward Adam Davis
Date: Sun Dec 24 2023 - 06:59:27 EST


If inode is the ext4 boot loader inode, then when it is a directory, the inode
should also be set to bad inode.

Reported-and-tested-by: syzbot+2c4a3b922a860084cc7f@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Edward Adam Davis <eadavis@xxxxxx>
---
fs/ext4/inode.c | 8 ++++++--
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/ext4/inode.c b/fs/ext4/inode.c
index 61277f7f8722..b311f610f008 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/inode.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c
@@ -4944,8 +4944,12 @@ struct inode *__ext4_iget(struct super_block *sb, unsigned long ino,
inode->i_fop = &ext4_file_operations;
ext4_set_aops(inode);
} else if (S_ISDIR(inode->i_mode)) {
- inode->i_op = &ext4_dir_inode_operations;
- inode->i_fop = &ext4_dir_operations;
+ if (ino == EXT4_BOOT_LOADER_INO)
+ make_bad_inode(inode);
+ else {
+ inode->i_op = &ext4_dir_inode_operations;
+ inode->i_fop = &ext4_dir_operations;
+ }
} else if (S_ISLNK(inode->i_mode)) {
/* VFS does not allow setting these so must be corruption */
if (IS_APPEND(inode) || IS_IMMUTABLE(inode)) {
--
2.43.0