Re: [syzbot] [ext4?] WARNING in ext4_xattr_inode_update_ref (2)

From: Lizhi Xu

Date: Thu Oct 30 2025 - 21:53:17 EST


#syz test

diff --git a/fs/ext4/xattr.c b/fs/ext4/xattr.c
index ce7253b3f549..8babe8c344fe 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/xattr.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/xattr.c
@@ -1192,6 +1192,14 @@ ext4_xattr_inode_dec_ref_all(handle_t *handle, struct inode *parent,
if (err)
continue;

+ size_t size = le32_to_cpu(entry->e_value_size);
+ if (i_size_read(ea_inode) != size) {
+ ext4_warning_inode(ea_inode,
+ "ea_inode file size=%llu entry size=%zu",
+ i_size_read(ea_inode), size);
+ iput(ea_inode);
+ continue;
+ }
err = ext4_expand_inode_array(ea_inode_array, ea_inode);
if (err) {
ext4_warning_inode(ea_inode,