diff mbox series

[1/2] ext4: always initialize the crc32c checksum driver

Message ID 20180326044906.13286-1-tytso@mit.edu
State Accepted, archived
Headers show
Series [1/2] ext4: always initialize the crc32c checksum driver | expand

Commit Message

Theodore Ts'o March 26, 2018, 4:49 a.m. UTC
The extended attribute code now uses the crc32c checksum for hashing
purposes, so we should just always always initialize it.  We also want
to prevent NULL pointer dereferences if one of the metadata checksum
features is enabled after the file sytsem is originally mounted.

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=199183

Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
---
 fs/ext4/super.c | 15 ++++++---------
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

Comments

Nikolay Borisov April 1, 2018, 12:19 p.m. UTC | #1
On 26.03.2018 07:49, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> The extended attribute code now uses the crc32c checksum for hashing
> purposes, so we should just always always initialize it.  We also want
> to prevent NULL pointer dereferences if one of the metadata checksum
> features is enabled after the file sytsem is originally mounted.
> 
> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=199183
> 
> Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> ---
>  fs/ext4/super.c | 15 ++++++---------
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/ext4/super.c b/fs/ext4/super.c
> index 9d1da40c1f62..7cd022c344d1 100644
> --- a/fs/ext4/super.c
> +++ b/fs/ext4/super.c
> @@ -3492,15 +3492,12 @@ static int ext4_fill_super(struct super_block *sb, void *data, int silent)
>  	}
>  
>  	/* Load the checksum driver */
> -	if (ext4_has_feature_metadata_csum(sb) ||
> -	    ext4_has_feature_ea_inode(sb)) {
> -		sbi->s_chksum_driver = crypto_alloc_shash("crc32c", 0, 0);
> -		if (IS_ERR(sbi->s_chksum_driver)) {
> -			ext4_msg(sb, KERN_ERR, "Cannot load crc32c driver.");
> -			ret = PTR_ERR(sbi->s_chksum_driver);
> -			sbi->s_chksum_driver = NULL;
> -			goto failed_mount;
> -		}
> +	sbi->s_chksum_driver = crypto_alloc_shash("crc32c", 0, 0);
> +	if (IS_ERR(sbi->s_chksum_driver)) {
> +		ext4_msg(sb, KERN_ERR, "Cannot load crc32c driver.");
> +		ret = PTR_ERR(sbi->s_chksum_driver);
> +		sbi->s_chksum_driver = NULL;
> +		goto failed_mount;
>  	}


Why do you need to do all the manual initialization of the crc32c
lowlevel driver, when you can just make ext4 select LIBCRC32c and in the
code just use crc32c? Refer to include/linux/crc32c.h for the interface
and lib/libcrc32c.c for the low-level details.


>  
>  	/* Check superblock checksum */
>
diff mbox series

Patch

diff --git a/fs/ext4/super.c b/fs/ext4/super.c
index 9d1da40c1f62..7cd022c344d1 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/super.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/super.c
@@ -3492,15 +3492,12 @@  static int ext4_fill_super(struct super_block *sb, void *data, int silent)
 	}
 
 	/* Load the checksum driver */
-	if (ext4_has_feature_metadata_csum(sb) ||
-	    ext4_has_feature_ea_inode(sb)) {
-		sbi->s_chksum_driver = crypto_alloc_shash("crc32c", 0, 0);
-		if (IS_ERR(sbi->s_chksum_driver)) {
-			ext4_msg(sb, KERN_ERR, "Cannot load crc32c driver.");
-			ret = PTR_ERR(sbi->s_chksum_driver);
-			sbi->s_chksum_driver = NULL;
-			goto failed_mount;
-		}
+	sbi->s_chksum_driver = crypto_alloc_shash("crc32c", 0, 0);
+	if (IS_ERR(sbi->s_chksum_driver)) {
+		ext4_msg(sb, KERN_ERR, "Cannot load crc32c driver.");
+		ret = PTR_ERR(sbi->s_chksum_driver);
+		sbi->s_chksum_driver = NULL;
+		goto failed_mount;
 	}
 
 	/* Check superblock checksum */