The patch below does not apply to the 4.4-stable tree. If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit id to stable@vger.kernel.org.
thanks,
greg k-h
------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------
From 18db4b4e6fc31eda838dd1c1296d67dbcb3dc957 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Theodore Ts'o tytso@mit.edu Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2018 22:10:35 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] ext4: don't allow r/w mounts if metadata blocks overlap the superblock
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
diff --git a/fs/ext4/super.c b/fs/ext4/super.c index 7cd022c344d1..edcfe6956eba 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/super.c +++ b/fs/ext4/super.c @@ -2335,6 +2335,8 @@ 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: " @@ -2347,6 +2349,8 @@ 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: " @@ -2359,6 +2363,8 @@ 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) {