ext4: add extra checks to ext4_xattr_block_get()

Add explicit checks in ext4_xattr_block_get() just in case the
e_value_offs and e_value_size fields in the the xattr block are
corrupted in memory after the buffer_verified bit is set on the xattr
block.

Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: stable@kernel.org

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/fs/ext4/xattr.h b/fs/ext4/xattr.h
index dd54c4f995c8..f39cad2abe2a 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/xattr.h
+++ b/fs/ext4/xattr.h
@@ -71,6 +71,17 @@ struct ext4_xattr_entry {
 #define IFIRST(hdr) ((struct ext4_xattr_entry *)((hdr)+1))
 
 /*
+ * XATTR_SIZE_MAX is currently 64k, but for the purposes of checking
+ * for file system consistency errors, we use a somewhat bigger value.
+ * This allows XATTR_SIZE_MAX to grow in the future, but by using this
+ * instead of INT_MAX for certain consistency checks, we don't need to
+ * worry about arithmetic overflows.  (Actually XATTR_SIZE_MAX is
+ * defined in include/uapi/linux/limits.h, so changing it is going
+ * not going to be trivial....)
+ */
+#define EXT4_XATTR_SIZE_MAX (1 << 24)
+
+/*
  * The minimum size of EA value when you start storing it in an external inode
  * size of block - size of header - size of 1 entry - 4 null bytes
 */