From: Theodore Ts'o tytso@mit.edu
If some metadata block, such as an allocation bitmap, overlaps the superblock, it's very likely that if the file system is mounted read/write, the results will not be pretty. So disallow r/w mounts for file systems corrupted in this particular way.
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o tytso@mit.edu Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Harsh Shandilya harsh@prjkt.io --- fs/ext4/super.c | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
diff --git a/fs/ext4/super.c b/fs/ext4/super.c index cc0a2298099d..263a2f9802f8 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/super.c +++ b/fs/ext4/super.c @@ -2093,6 +2093,8 @@ static int ext4_check_descriptors(struct super_block *sb, ext4_msg(sb, KERN_ERR, "ext4_check_descriptors: " "Block bitmap for group %u overlaps " "superblock", i); + if (!sb_rdonly(sb)) + return 0; } if (block_bitmap < first_block || block_bitmap > last_block) { ext4_msg(sb, KERN_ERR, "ext4_check_descriptors: " @@ -2105,6 +2107,8 @@ static int ext4_check_descriptors(struct super_block *sb, ext4_msg(sb, KERN_ERR, "ext4_check_descriptors: " "Inode bitmap for group %u overlaps " "superblock", i); + if (!sb_rdonly(sb)) + return 0; } if (inode_bitmap < first_block || inode_bitmap > last_block) { ext4_msg(sb, KERN_ERR, "ext4_check_descriptors: " @@ -2117,6 +2121,8 @@ static int ext4_check_descriptors(struct super_block *sb, ext4_msg(sb, KERN_ERR, "ext4_check_descriptors: " "Inode table for group %u overlaps " "superblock", i); + if (!sb_rdonly(sb)) + return 0; } if (inode_table < first_block || inode_table + sbi->s_itb_per_group - 1 > last_block) {