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authorTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>2018-06-13 00:51:28 -0400
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2018-10-13 09:18:56 +0200
commit0050338e0d3c3e3047507c4998b132e52baafc44 (patch)
tree90df522cf197e1ede1758a9ca060a73610a445f8 /fs/ext4
parentb469713e0c0cf3dadc9bbc59e9fd6780e1853c5a (diff)
ext4: always verify the magic number in xattr blocks
commit 513f86d73855ce556ea9522b6bfd79f87356dc3a upstream. If there an inode points to a block which is also some other type of metadata block (such as a block allocation bitmap), the buffer_verified flag can be set when it was validated as that other metadata block type; however, it would make a really terrible external attribute block. The reason why we use the verified flag is to avoid constantly reverifying the block. However, it doesn't take much overhead to make sure the magic number of the xattr block is correct, and this will avoid potential crashes. This addresses CVE-2018-10879. https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=200001 Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Reviewed-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@dilger.ca> [Backported to 4.9: adjust context] Signed-off-by: Daniel Rosenberg <drosen@google.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/ext4')
-rw-r--r--fs/ext4/xattr.c6
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/fs/ext4/xattr.c b/fs/ext4/xattr.c
index 2888fc652790..c10180d0b018 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/xattr.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/xattr.c
@@ -209,12 +209,12 @@ ext4_xattr_check_block(struct inode *inode, struct buffer_head *bh)
{
int error;
- if (buffer_verified(bh))
- return 0;
-
if (BHDR(bh)->h_magic != cpu_to_le32(EXT4_XATTR_MAGIC) ||
BHDR(bh)->h_blocks != cpu_to_le32(1))
return -EFSCORRUPTED;
+ if (buffer_verified(bh))
+ return 0;
+
if (!ext4_xattr_block_csum_verify(inode, bh))
return -EFSBADCRC;
error = ext4_xattr_check_names(BFIRST(bh), bh->b_data + bh->b_size,