Thread (144 messages) 144 messages, 5 authors, 2016-06-06

[added to the 4.1 stable tree] ext4: fix hang when processing corrupted orphaned inode list

From: Sasha Levin <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-03 21:37:58
Subsystem: ext4 file system, filesystems (vfs and infrastructure), the rest · Maintainers: "Theodore Ts'o", Alexander Viro, Christian Brauner, Linus Torvalds

From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>

This patch has been added to the 4.1 stable tree. If you have any
objections, please let us know.

===============

[ Upstream commit c9eb13a9105e2e418f72e46a2b6da3f49e696902 ]

If the orphaned inode list contains inode #5, ext4_iget() returns a
bad inode (since the bootloader inode should never be referenced
directly).  Because of the bad inode, we end up processing the inode
repeatedly and this hangs the machine.

This can be reproduced via:

   mke2fs -t ext4 /tmp/foo.img 100
   debugfs -w -R "ssv last_orphan 5" /tmp/foo.img
   mount -o loop /tmp/foo.img /mnt

(But don't do this if you are using an unpatched kernel if you care
about the system staying functional.  :-)

This bug was found by the port of American Fuzzy Lop into the kernel
to find file system problems[1].  (Since it *only* happens if inode #5
shows up on the orphan list --- 3, 7, 8, etc. won't do it, it's not
surprising that AFL needed two hours before it found it.)

[1] http://events.linuxfoundation.org/sites/events/files/slides/AFL%20filesystem%20fuzzing%2C%20Vault%202016_0.pdf

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported by: Vegard Nossum [off-list ref]
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>

Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <redacted>
---
 fs/ext4/ialloc.c | 10 ++++++----
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/ext4/ialloc.c b/fs/ext4/ialloc.c
index 1eaa6cb..1a65c6d 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/ialloc.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/ialloc.c
@@ -1142,11 +1142,13 @@ struct inode *ext4_orphan_get(struct super_block *sb, unsigned long ino)
 		goto iget_failed;
 
 	/*
-	 * If the orphans has i_nlinks > 0 then it should be able to be
-	 * truncated, otherwise it won't be removed from the orphan list
-	 * during processing and an infinite loop will result.
+	 * If the orphans has i_nlinks > 0 then it should be able to
+	 * be truncated, otherwise it won't be removed from the orphan
+	 * list during processing and an infinite loop will result.
+	 * Similarly, it must not be a bad inode.
 	 */
-	if (inode->i_nlink && !ext4_can_truncate(inode))
+	if ((inode->i_nlink && !ext4_can_truncate(inode)) ||
+	    is_bad_inode(inode))
 		goto bad_orphan;
 
 	if (NEXT_ORPHAN(inode) > max_ino)
-- 
2.5.0
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