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* [PATCH] ext4: ext4_fill_super shouldn't return 0 on corruption
@ 2010-11-15 21:48 Darrick J. Wong
  2010-11-15 21:55 ` Eric Sandeen
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 10+ messages in thread
From: Darrick J. Wong @ 2010-11-15 21:48 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Theodore Ts'o, Patrick J. LoPresti
  Cc: linux-kernel, linux-ext4, Mingming Cao

At the start of ext4_fill_super, ret is set to -EINVAL, and any failure path
out of that function returns this ret.  However, the generic_check_addressable
clause sets ret = 0 if it passes, which means that a subsequent failure (e.g.
a group checksum error) returns 0 even though the mount should fail.  This
causes vfs_kern_mount in turn to think that the mount succeeded (because
PTR_ERR(0) is false), leading to an oops.

A simple fix is to avoid using ret for the generic_check_addressable check,
which was last changed in commit 30ca22c70e3ef0a96ff84de69cd7e8561b416cb2.

Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@us.ibm.com>
---

 fs/ext4/super.c |    5 ++---
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/ext4/super.c b/fs/ext4/super.c
index 40131b7..a44bc59 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/super.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/super.c
@@ -3257,9 +3257,8 @@ static int ext4_fill_super(struct super_block *sb, void *data, int silent)
 	 * Test whether we have more sectors than will fit in sector_t,
 	 * and whether the max offset is addressable by the page cache.
 	 */
-	ret = generic_check_addressable(sb->s_blocksize_bits,
-					ext4_blocks_count(es));
-	if (ret) {
+	if (generic_check_addressable(sb->s_blocksize_bits,
+				      ext4_blocks_count(es))) {
 		ext4_msg(sb, KERN_ERR, "filesystem"
 			 " too large to mount safely on this system");
 		if (sizeof(sector_t) < 8)

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2010-11-15 21:48 [PATCH] ext4: ext4_fill_super shouldn't return 0 on corruption Darrick J. Wong
2010-11-15 21:55 ` Eric Sandeen
2010-11-15 23:03   ` [PATCH v2] " Darrick J. Wong
2010-11-16 12:56     ` Lukas Czerner
2010-11-16 17:43       ` Eric Sandeen
2010-11-16 22:55       ` Darrick J. Wong
2010-11-19 14:59         ` Ted Ts'o
2010-11-16 22:57       ` [PATCH] ext3: Return error code from generic_check_addressable Darrick J. Wong
2010-11-18  8:52         ` Lukas Czerner
2010-11-22 18:27           ` Jan Kara

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