[ 3.5.y.z extended stable ] Patch "fat: fix possible overflow for fat_clusters" has been added to staging queue

Luis Henriques luis.henriques at canonical.com
Tue May 28 09:51:30 UTC 2013


This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    fat: fix possible overflow for fat_clusters

to the linux-3.5.y-queue branch of the 3.5.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.5.y-queue

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.5.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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From: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi at mail.parknet.co.jp>
Date: Fri, 24 May 2013 15:55:08 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] fat: fix possible overflow for fat_clusters

commit 7b92d03c3239f43e5b86c9cc9630f026d36ee995 upstream.

Intermediate value of fat_clusters can be overflowed on 32bits arch.

Reported-by: Krzysztof Strasburger <strasbur at chkw386.ch.pwr.wroc.pl>
Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi at mail.parknet.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm at linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds at linux-foundation.org>
[ luis: adjust context ]
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 fs/fat/inode.c | 15 ++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/fat/inode.c b/fs/fat/inode.c
index 0038b32..e69b441e 100644
--- a/fs/fat/inode.c
+++ b/fs/fat/inode.c
@@ -1218,6 +1218,19 @@ static int fat_read_root(struct inode *inode)
 	return 0;
 }

+static unsigned long calc_fat_clusters(struct super_block *sb)
+{
+	struct msdos_sb_info *sbi = MSDOS_SB(sb);
+
+	/* Divide first to avoid overflow */
+	if (sbi->fat_bits != 12) {
+		unsigned long ent_per_sec = sb->s_blocksize * 8 / sbi->fat_bits;
+		return ent_per_sec * sbi->fat_length;
+	}
+
+	return sbi->fat_length * sb->s_blocksize * 8 / sbi->fat_bits;
+}
+
 /*
  * Read the super block of an MS-DOS FS.
  */
@@ -1415,7 +1428,7 @@ int fat_fill_super(struct super_block *sb, void *data, int silent, int isvfat,
 		sbi->fat_bits = (total_clusters > MAX_FAT12) ? 16 : 12;

 	/* check that FAT table does not overflow */
-	fat_clusters = sbi->fat_length * sb->s_blocksize * 8 / sbi->fat_bits;
+	fat_clusters = calc_fat_clusters(sb);
 	total_clusters = min(total_clusters, fat_clusters - FAT_START_ENT);
 	if (total_clusters > MAX_FAT(sb)) {
 		if (!silent)
--
1.8.1.2





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