[4.2.y-ckt stable] Patch "ext4: fix potential integer overflow" has been added to the 4.2.y-ckt tree

[Kamal Mostafa]

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

    ext4: fix potential integer overflow

to the linux-4.2.y-queue branch of the 4.2.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

    http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-4.2.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 4.2.8-ckt5.

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

For more information about the 4.2.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From 8a26972a570984580448bc71e492779dff6c03b8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Insu Yun <wuninsu at gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2016 01:15:59 -0500
Subject: ext4: fix potential integer overflow

commit 46901760b46064964b41015d00c140c83aa05bcf upstream.

Since sizeof(ext_new_group_data) > sizeof(ext_new_flex_group_data),
integer overflow could be happened.
Therefore, need to fix integer overflow sanitization.

Signed-off-by: Insu Yun <wuninsu at gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso at mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 fs/ext4/resize.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/ext4/resize.c b/fs/ext4/resize.c
index c7c53fd..c9a514f 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/resize.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/resize.c
@@ -198,7 +198,7 @@ static struct ext4_new_flex_group_data *alloc_flex_gd(unsigned long flexbg_size)
 	if (flex_gd == NULL)
 		goto out3;

-	if (flexbg_size >= UINT_MAX / sizeof(struct ext4_new_flex_group_data))
+	if (flexbg_size >= UINT_MAX / sizeof(struct ext4_new_group_data))
 		goto out2;
 	flex_gd->count = flexbg_size;

--
2.7.0