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authorBaokun Li <libaokun@linux.alibaba.com>2026-06-08 19:11:50 +0800
committerTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>2026-07-21 11:26:39 -0400
commita34de48f329b29dba2d407ad4168ca604d4768e1 (patch)
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parentafa3caf2fbc417f755f36e271c4b3c2d45ccda9d (diff)
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ext4: reject mount if inodes per group is not a multiple of inodes per block
If s_inodes_per_group is not a multiple of s_inodes_per_block, the division that computes s_itb_per_group truncates, reserving fewer blocks for the inode table than needed. On a crafted filesystem image, this allows __ext4_get_inode_loc() to compute a block offset beyond the inode table, reading unrelated data as an inode structure. Add the missing divisibility check alongside the existing validation in ext4_block_group_meta_init(). Reported-by: Sashiko <sashiko-bot@kernel.org> Closes: https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260608061112.392391-1-libaokun%40linux.alibaba.com Signed-off-by: Baokun Li <libaokun@linux.alibaba.com> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Reviewed-by: Zhang Yi <yi.zhang@huawei.com> Reviewed-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@dilger.ca> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260608111150.827117-4-libaokun@linux.alibaba.com Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs')
-rw-r--r--fs/ext4/super.c3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/ext4/super.c b/fs/ext4/super.c
index 229eb509905f..f0a99c1e270f 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/super.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/super.c
@@ -5310,7 +5310,8 @@ static int ext4_block_group_meta_init(struct super_block *sb, int silent)
}
if (sbi->s_inodes_per_group < sbi->s_inodes_per_block ||
sbi->s_inodes_per_group > sb->s_blocksize * 8 ||
- sbi->s_inodes_per_group & 7) {
+ sbi->s_inodes_per_group & 7 ||
+ sbi->s_inodes_per_group % sbi->s_inodes_per_block) {
ext4_msg(sb, KERN_ERR, "invalid inodes per group: %lu",
sbi->s_inodes_per_group);
return -EINVAL;