From: Theodore Ts'o tytso@mit.edu
[ Upstream commit 6e589291f4b1b700ca12baec5930592a0d51e63c ]
A malicious/clueless root user can use EXT4_IOC_SWAP_BOOT to force a corner casew which can lead to the file system getting corrupted. There's no usefulness to allowing this, so just prohibit this case.
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o tytso@mit.edu Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin sashal@kernel.org --- fs/ext4/ioctl.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/fs/ext4/ioctl.c b/fs/ext4/ioctl.c index abb6fcff0a1d3..783c54bb2ce75 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/ioctl.c +++ b/fs/ext4/ioctl.c @@ -132,6 +132,7 @@ static long swap_inode_boot_loader(struct super_block *sb,
if (inode->i_nlink != 1 || !S_ISREG(inode->i_mode) || IS_SWAPFILE(inode) || IS_ENCRYPTED(inode) || + (EXT4_I(inode)->i_flags & EXT4_JOURNAL_DATA_FL) || ext4_has_inline_data(inode)) { err = -EINVAL; goto journal_err_out;