ext4: add sanity checking to count_overhead()

The commit "ext4: sanity check the block and cluster size at mount time" should prevent any problems, but in case the superblock is modified while the file system is mounted, add an extra safety check to make sure we won't overrun the allocated buffer. Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected]
redbrain17 · Nov 18, 2016 · c48ae41 · c48ae41
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commit c48ae41
Showing 1 changed file with 8 additions and 3 deletions.
diff --git a/fs/ext4/super.c b/fs/ext4/super.c
@@ -3195,10 +3195,15 @@ static int count_overhead(struct super_block *sb, ext4_group_t grp,
 			ext4_set_bit(s++, buf);
 			count++;
 		}
-		for (j = ext4_bg_num_gdb(sb, grp); j > 0; j--) {
-			ext4_set_bit(EXT4_B2C(sbi, s++), buf);
-			count++;
+		j = ext4_bg_num_gdb(sb, grp);
+		if (s + j > EXT4_BLOCKS_PER_GROUP(sb)) {
+			ext4_error(sb, "Invalid number of block group "
+				   "descriptor blocks: %d", j);
+			j = EXT4_BLOCKS_PER_GROUP(sb) - s;
 		}
+		count += j;
+		for (; j > 0; j--)
+			ext4_set_bit(EXT4_B2C(sbi, s++), buf);
 	}
 	if (!count)
 		return 0;