From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-pf1-f177.google.com ([209.85.210.177]:34668 "EHLO mail-pf1-f177.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726931AbeI0DPK (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Sep 2018 23:15:10 -0400 Received: by mail-pf1-f177.google.com with SMTP id k19-v6so233591pfi.1 for ; Wed, 26 Sep 2018 14:00:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hackmann.mtv.corp.google.com ([2620:0:1000:1601:82f7:8f1:8c08:a97a]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id h63-v6sm36753pge.48.2018.09.26.14.00.20 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Wed, 26 Sep 2018 14:00:20 -0700 (PDT) To: stable@vger.kernel.org From: Greg Hackmann Subject: Please apply "ext4: verify the depth of extent tree in ext4_find_extent()" to 3.18.y Message-ID: <193752e6-86a3-fe1a-4951-49bfa438700b@google.com> Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2018 14:00:19 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-GB Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: bc890a602471 ("ext4: verify the depth of extent tree in ext4_find_extent()") fixes a potential buffer overrun when mounting corrupted ext4 filesystems. It was taken into 4.4.y and later but not 3.18.y, probably because it doesn't build as-is against 3.18. Ben Hutchings has a backport in the latest 3.16.y release (09999807edd8) which would work for 3.18.y too.