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ext4: disallow files with EXT4_JOURNAL_DATA_FL from EXT4_IOC_SWAP_BOOT

Message ID 20190211061537.32386-1-tytso@mit.edu
State Accepted, archived
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Series ext4: disallow files with EXT4_JOURNAL_DATA_FL from EXT4_IOC_SWAP_BOOT | expand

Commit Message

Theodore Ts'o Feb. 11, 2019, 6:15 a.m. UTC
A malicious/clueless root user can use EXT4_IOC_SWAP_BOOT to force a
corner casew which can lead to the file system getting corrupted.
There's no usefulness to allowing this, so just prohibit this case.

Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
---
 fs/ext4/ioctl.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

Comments

yangerkun Feb. 12, 2019, 12:41 p.m. UTC | #1
Reviewed-by: yangerkun <yangerkun@huawei.com>

Theodore Ts'o wrote on 2019/2/11 14:15:
> A malicious/clueless root user can use EXT4_IOC_SWAP_BOOT to force a
> corner casew which can lead to the file system getting corrupted.
> There's no usefulness to allowing this, so just prohibit this case.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
> ---
>   fs/ext4/ioctl.c | 1 +
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/ext4/ioctl.c b/fs/ext4/ioctl.c
> index 2e76fb55d94a..eb8ca8d80885 100644
> --- a/fs/ext4/ioctl.c
> +++ b/fs/ext4/ioctl.c
> @@ -132,6 +132,7 @@ static long swap_inode_boot_loader(struct super_block *sb,
>   
>   	if (inode->i_nlink != 1 || !S_ISREG(inode->i_mode) ||
>   	    IS_SWAPFILE(inode) || IS_ENCRYPTED(inode) ||
> +	    (EXT4_I(inode)->i_flags & EXT4_JOURNAL_DATA_FL) ||
>   	    ext4_has_inline_data(inode)) {
>   		err = -EINVAL;
>   		goto journal_err_out;
>
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diff --git a/fs/ext4/ioctl.c b/fs/ext4/ioctl.c
index 2e76fb55d94a..eb8ca8d80885 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/ioctl.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/ioctl.c
@@ -132,6 +132,7 @@  static long swap_inode_boot_loader(struct super_block *sb,
 
 	if (inode->i_nlink != 1 || !S_ISREG(inode->i_mode) ||
 	    IS_SWAPFILE(inode) || IS_ENCRYPTED(inode) ||
+	    (EXT4_I(inode)->i_flags & EXT4_JOURNAL_DATA_FL) ||
 	    ext4_has_inline_data(inode)) {
 		err = -EINVAL;
 		goto journal_err_out;