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<title>ext4: fix check to prevent initializing reserved inodes</title>
<updated>2018-10-13T07:09:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Theodore Ts'o</name>
<email>tytso@mit.edu</email>
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<published>2018-07-28T12:12:04+00:00</published>
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commit 5012284700775a4e6e3fbe7eac4c543c4874b559 upstream.

Commit 8844618d8aa7: "ext4: only look at the bg_flags field if it is
valid" will complain if block group zero does not have the
EXT4_BG_INODE_ZEROED flag set.  Unfortunately, this is not correct,
since a freshly created file system has this flag cleared.  It gets
almost immediately after the file system is mounted read-write --- but
the following somewhat unlikely sequence will end up triggering a
false positive report of a corrupted file system:

   mkfs.ext4 /dev/vdc
   mount -o ro /dev/vdc /vdc
   mount -o remount,rw /dev/vdc

Instead, when initializing the inode table for block group zero, test
to make sure that itable_unused count is not too large, since that is
the case that will result in some or all of the reserved inodes
getting cleared.

This fixes the failures reported by Eric Whiteney when running
generic/230 and generic/231 in the the nojournal test case.

Fixes: 8844618d8aa7 ("ext4: only look at the bg_flags field if it is valid")
Reported-by: Eric Whitney &lt;enwlinux@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 3.16: adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Hackmann &lt;ghackmann@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 5012284700775a4e6e3fbe7eac4c543c4874b559 upstream.

Commit 8844618d8aa7: "ext4: only look at the bg_flags field if it is
valid" will complain if block group zero does not have the
EXT4_BG_INODE_ZEROED flag set.  Unfortunately, this is not correct,
since a freshly created file system has this flag cleared.  It gets
almost immediately after the file system is mounted read-write --- but
the following somewhat unlikely sequence will end up triggering a
false positive report of a corrupted file system:

   mkfs.ext4 /dev/vdc
   mount -o ro /dev/vdc /vdc
   mount -o remount,rw /dev/vdc

Instead, when initializing the inode table for block group zero, test
to make sure that itable_unused count is not too large, since that is
the case that will result in some or all of the reserved inodes
getting cleared.

This fixes the failures reported by Eric Whiteney when running
generic/230 and generic/231 in the the nojournal test case.

Fixes: 8844618d8aa7 ("ext4: only look at the bg_flags field if it is valid")
Reported-by: Eric Whitney &lt;enwlinux@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 3.16: adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Hackmann &lt;ghackmann@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ext4: only look at the bg_flags field if it is valid</title>
<updated>2018-10-13T07:09:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Theodore Ts'o</name>
<email>tytso@mit.edu</email>
</author>
<published>2018-06-14T04:58:00+00:00</published>
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commit 8844618d8aa7a9973e7b527d038a2a589665002c upstream.

The bg_flags field in the block group descripts is only valid if the
uninit_bg or metadata_csum feature is enabled.  We were not
consistently looking at this field; fix this.

Also block group #0 must never have uninitialized allocation bitmaps,
or need to be zeroed, since that's where the root inode, and other
special inodes are set up.  Check for these conditions and mark the
file system as corrupted if they are detected.

This addresses CVE-2018-10876.

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=199403

Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Cc: stable@kernel.org
[bwh: Backported to 3.16:
 - ext4_read_block_bitmap_nowait() and ext4_read_inode_bitmap() return
   a pointer (NULL on error) instead of an error code
 - Open-code sb_rdonly()
 - Adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
[ghackmann@google.com: forward-port to 3.18: adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Greg Hackmann &lt;ghackmann@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 8844618d8aa7a9973e7b527d038a2a589665002c upstream.

The bg_flags field in the block group descripts is only valid if the
uninit_bg or metadata_csum feature is enabled.  We were not
consistently looking at this field; fix this.

Also block group #0 must never have uninitialized allocation bitmaps,
or need to be zeroed, since that's where the root inode, and other
special inodes are set up.  Check for these conditions and mark the
file system as corrupted if they are detected.

This addresses CVE-2018-10876.

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=199403

Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Cc: stable@kernel.org
[bwh: Backported to 3.16:
 - ext4_read_block_bitmap_nowait() and ext4_read_inode_bitmap() return
   a pointer (NULL on error) instead of an error code
 - Open-code sb_rdonly()
 - Adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
[ghackmann@google.com: forward-port to 3.18: adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Greg Hackmann &lt;ghackmann@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ext4: add validity checks for bitmap block numbers</title>
<updated>2018-05-02T14:59:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Theodore Ts'o</name>
<email>tytso@mit.edu</email>
</author>
<published>2018-03-27T03:54:10+00:00</published>
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commit 7dac4a1726a9c64a517d595c40e95e2d0d135f6f upstream.

An privileged attacker can cause a crash by mounting a crafted ext4
image which triggers a out-of-bounds read in the function
ext4_valid_block_bitmap() in fs/ext4/balloc.c.

This issue has been assigned CVE-2018-1093.

Backport notes:
3.18.y is missing commit 6a797d273783 ("ext4: call out CRC and corruption errors with specific error codes")
so the EFSCORRUPTED label doesn't exist. Replaced
all instances of EFSCORRUPTED with EUCLEAN since that's
what 6a797d273783 defined it as.

BugLink: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=199181
BugLink: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1560782
Reported-by: Wen Xu &lt;wen.xu@gatech.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
[harsh@prjkt.io: s/EFSCORRUPTED/EUCLEAN/ fs/ext4/balloc.c]
Signed-off-by: Harsh Shandilya &lt;harsh@prjkt.io&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 7dac4a1726a9c64a517d595c40e95e2d0d135f6f upstream.

An privileged attacker can cause a crash by mounting a crafted ext4
image which triggers a out-of-bounds read in the function
ext4_valid_block_bitmap() in fs/ext4/balloc.c.

This issue has been assigned CVE-2018-1093.

Backport notes:
3.18.y is missing commit 6a797d273783 ("ext4: call out CRC and corruption errors with specific error codes")
so the EFSCORRUPTED label doesn't exist. Replaced
all instances of EFSCORRUPTED with EUCLEAN since that's
what 6a797d273783 defined it as.

BugLink: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=199181
BugLink: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1560782
Reported-by: Wen Xu &lt;wen.xu@gatech.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
[harsh@prjkt.io: s/EFSCORRUPTED/EUCLEAN/ fs/ext4/balloc.c]
Signed-off-by: Harsh Shandilya &lt;harsh@prjkt.io&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ext4: don't update checksum of new initialized bitmaps</title>
<updated>2018-04-29T05:45:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Theodore Ts'o</name>
<email>tytso@mit.edu</email>
</author>
<published>2018-02-19T19:16:47+00:00</published>
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commit 044e6e3d74a3d7103a0c8a9305dfd94d64000660 upstream.

When reading the inode or block allocation bitmap, if the bitmap needs
to be initialized, do not update the checksum in the block group
descriptor.  That's because we're not set up to journal those changes.
Instead, just set the verified bit on the bitmap block, so that it's
not necessary to validate the checksum.

When a block or inode allocation actually happens, at that point the
checksum will be calculated, and update of the bg descriptor block
will be properly journalled.

Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Harsh Shandilya &lt;harsh@prjkt.io&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 044e6e3d74a3d7103a0c8a9305dfd94d64000660 upstream.

When reading the inode or block allocation bitmap, if the bitmap needs
to be initialized, do not update the checksum in the block group
descriptor.  That's because we're not set up to journal those changes.
Instead, just set the verified bit on the bitmap block, so that it's
not necessary to validate the checksum.

When a block or inode allocation actually happens, at that point the
checksum will be calculated, and update of the bg descriptor block
will be properly journalled.

Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Harsh Shandilya &lt;harsh@prjkt.io&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ext4: clean up error handling when orphan list is corrupted</title>
<updated>2016-06-03T15:30:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Theodore Ts'o</name>
<email>tytso@mit.edu</email>
</author>
<published>2016-04-30T04:49:54+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 7827a7f6ebfcb7f388dc47fddd48567a314701ba ]

Instead of just printing warning messages, if the orphan list is
corrupted, declare the file system is corrupted.  If there are any
reserved inodes in the orphaned inode list, declare the file system
corrupted and stop right away to avoid doing more potential damage to
the file system.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sasha.levin@oracle.com&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 7827a7f6ebfcb7f388dc47fddd48567a314701ba ]

Instead of just printing warning messages, if the orphan list is
corrupted, declare the file system is corrupted.  If there are any
reserved inodes in the orphaned inode list, declare the file system
corrupted and stop right away to avoid doing more potential damage to
the file system.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sasha.levin@oracle.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ext4: fix hang when processing corrupted orphaned inode list</title>
<updated>2016-06-03T15:30:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Theodore Ts'o</name>
<email>tytso@mit.edu</email>
</author>
<published>2016-04-30T04:48:54+00:00</published>
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[ 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 &lt;vegard.nossum@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;

Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sasha.levin@oracle.com&gt;
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[ 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 &lt;vegard.nossum@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;

Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sasha.levin@oracle.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ext4: fix oops when loading block bitmap failed</title>
<updated>2014-10-30T14:53:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jan Kara</name>
<email>jack@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2014-10-30T14:53:16+00:00</published>
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When we fail to load block bitmap in __ext4_new_inode() we will
dereference NULL pointer in ext4_journal_get_write_access(). So check
for error from ext4_read_block_bitmap().

Coverity-id: 989065
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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When we fail to load block bitmap in __ext4_new_inode() we will
dereference NULL pointer in ext4_journal_get_write_access(). So check
for error from ext4_read_block_bitmap().

Coverity-id: 989065
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ext4: Replace open coded mdata csum feature to helper function</title>
<updated>2014-10-13T07:36:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dmitry Monakhov</name>
<email>dmonakhov@openvz.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-10-13T07:36:16+00:00</published>
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Besides the fact that this replacement improves code readability
it also protects from errors caused direct EXT4_S(sb)-&gt;s_es manipulation
which may result attempt to use uninitialized  csum machinery.

#Testcase_BEGIN
IMG=/dev/ram0
MNT=/mnt
mkfs.ext4 $IMG
mount $IMG $MNT
#Enable feature directly on disk, on mounted fs
tune2fs -O metadata_csum  $IMG
# Provoke metadata update, likey result in OOPS
touch $MNT/test
umount $MNT
#Testcase_END

# Replacement script
@@
expression E;
@@
- EXT4_HAS_RO_COMPAT_FEATURE(E, EXT4_FEATURE_RO_COMPAT_METADATA_CSUM)
+ ext4_has_metadata_csum(E)

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=82201

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Monakhov &lt;dmonakhov@openvz.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
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Besides the fact that this replacement improves code readability
it also protects from errors caused direct EXT4_S(sb)-&gt;s_es manipulation
which may result attempt to use uninitialized  csum machinery.

#Testcase_BEGIN
IMG=/dev/ram0
MNT=/mnt
mkfs.ext4 $IMG
mount $IMG $MNT
#Enable feature directly on disk, on mounted fs
tune2fs -O metadata_csum  $IMG
# Provoke metadata update, likey result in OOPS
touch $MNT/test
umount $MNT
#Testcase_END

# Replacement script
@@
expression E;
@@
- EXT4_HAS_RO_COMPAT_FEATURE(E, EXT4_FEATURE_RO_COMPAT_METADATA_CSUM)
+ ext4_has_metadata_csum(E)

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=82201

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Monakhov &lt;dmonakhov@openvz.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ext4: fix potential null pointer dereference in ext4_free_inode</title>
<updated>2014-07-12T20:11:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Namjae Jeon</name>
<email>namjae.jeon@samsung.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-07-12T20:11:42+00:00</published>
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Fix potential null pointer dereferencing problem caused by e43bb4e612
("ext4: decrement free clusters/inodes counters when block group declared bad")

Reported-by: Dan Carpenter &lt;dan.carpenter@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Namjae Jeon &lt;namjae.jeon@samsung.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ashish Sangwan &lt;a.sangwan@samsung.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Reviewed-by: Lukas Czerner &lt;lczerner@redhat.com&gt;

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Fix potential null pointer dereferencing problem caused by e43bb4e612
("ext4: decrement free clusters/inodes counters when block group declared bad")

Reported-by: Dan Carpenter &lt;dan.carpenter@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Namjae Jeon &lt;namjae.jeon@samsung.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ashish Sangwan &lt;a.sangwan@samsung.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Reviewed-by: Lukas Czerner &lt;lczerner@redhat.com&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ext4: fix unjournalled bg descriptor while initializing inode bitmap</title>
<updated>2014-07-05T20:28:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Theodore Ts'o</name>
<email>tytso@mit.edu</email>
</author>
<published>2014-07-05T20:28:35+00:00</published>
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The first time that we allocate from an uninitialized inode allocation
bitmap, if the block allocation bitmap is also uninitalized, we need
to get write access to the block group descriptor before we start
modifying the block group descriptor flags and updating the free block
count, etc.  Otherwise, there is the potential of a bad journal
checksum (if journal checksums are enabled), and of the file system
becoming inconsistent if we crash at exactly the wrong time.

Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
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The first time that we allocate from an uninitialized inode allocation
bitmap, if the block allocation bitmap is also uninitalized, we need
to get write access to the block group descriptor before we start
modifying the block group descriptor flags and updating the free block
count, etc.  Otherwise, there is the potential of a bad journal
checksum (if journal checksums are enabled), and of the file system
becoming inconsistent if we crash at exactly the wrong time.

Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
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