The quilt patch titled Subject: nilfs2: reject invalid file types when reading inodes has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was nilfs2-reject-invalid-file-types-when-reading-inodes.patch
This patch was dropped because it was merged into the mm-hotfixes-stable branch of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
------------------------------------------------------ From: Ryusuke Konishi konishi.ryusuke@gmail.com Subject: nilfs2: reject invalid file types when reading inodes Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2025 22:49:08 +0900
To prevent inodes with invalid file types from tripping through the vfs and causing malfunctions or assertion failures, add a missing sanity check when reading an inode from a block device. If the file type is not valid, treat it as a filesystem error.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250710134952.29862-1-konishi.ryusuke@gmail.com Fixes: 05fe58fdc10d ("nilfs2: inode operations") Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi konishi.ryusuke@gmail.com Reported-by: syzbot+895c23f6917da440ed0d@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Link: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=895c23f6917da440ed0d Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton akpm@linux-foundation.org ---
fs/nilfs2/inode.c | 9 ++++++++- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/fs/nilfs2/inode.c~nilfs2-reject-invalid-file-types-when-reading-inodes +++ a/fs/nilfs2/inode.c @@ -472,11 +472,18 @@ static int __nilfs_read_inode(struct sup inode->i_op = &nilfs_symlink_inode_operations; inode_nohighmem(inode); inode->i_mapping->a_ops = &nilfs_aops; - } else { + } else if (S_ISCHR(inode->i_mode) || S_ISBLK(inode->i_mode) || + S_ISFIFO(inode->i_mode) || S_ISSOCK(inode->i_mode)) { inode->i_op = &nilfs_special_inode_operations; init_special_inode( inode, inode->i_mode, huge_decode_dev(le64_to_cpu(raw_inode->i_device_code))); + } else { + nilfs_error(sb, + "invalid file type bits in mode 0%o for inode %lu", + inode->i_mode, ino); + err = -EIO; + goto failed_unmap; } nilfs_ifile_unmap_inode(raw_inode); brelse(bh); _
Patches currently in -mm which might be from konishi.ryusuke@gmail.com are