[PATCH] ext4: clear i_data in ext4_inode_info when removing inline data

Paolo Pisati paolo.pisati at canonical.com
Tue Jul 24 16:38:03 UTC 2018


From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso at mit.edu>

CVE-2018-10881

When converting from an inode from storing the data in-line to a data
block, ext4_destroy_inline_data_nolock() was only clearing the on-disk
copy of the i_blocks[] array.  It was not clearing copy of the
i_blocks[] in ext4_inode_info, in i_data[], which is the copy actually
used by ext4_map_blocks().

This didn't matter much if we are using extents, since the extents
header would be invalid and thus the extents could would re-initialize
the extents tree.  But if we are using indirect blocks, the previous
contents of the i_blocks array will be treated as block numbers, with
potentially catastrophic results to the file system integrity and/or
user data.

This gets worse if the file system is using a 1k block size and
s_first_data is zero, but even without this, the file system can get
quite badly corrupted.

This addresses CVE-2018-10881.

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=200015

Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso at mit.edu>
Cc: stable at kernel.org
(cherry picked from commit 6e8ab72a812396996035a37e5ca4b3b99b5d214b)
Signed-off-by: Paolo Pisati <paolo.pisati at canonical.com>
---
 fs/ext4/inline.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/fs/ext4/inline.c b/fs/ext4/inline.c
index 3af1fc4..790808b 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/inline.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/inline.c
@@ -434,6 +434,7 @@ static int ext4_destroy_inline_data_nolock(handle_t *handle,
 
 	memset((void *)ext4_raw_inode(&is.iloc)->i_block,
 		0, EXT4_MIN_INLINE_DATA_SIZE);
+	memset(ei->i_data, 0, EXT4_MIN_INLINE_DATA_SIZE);
 
 	if (EXT4_HAS_INCOMPAT_FEATURE(inode->i_sb,
 				      EXT4_FEATURE_INCOMPAT_EXTENTS)) {
-- 
2.7.4





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