ext4: add more mount time checks of the superblock
authorTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Sun, 17 Jun 2018 22:11:20 +0000 (18:11 -0400)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 11 Jul 2018 14:03:49 +0000 (16:03 +0200)
commit9ccad874bedabcc2fde0c1ea44a9b9f8afed5194
tree5ee3b8e0a098a605429280b52c64dd7779d29a3a
parentff6c96461be35381399466ad58f02b8d78ab480a
ext4: add more mount time checks of the superblock

commit bfe0a5f47ada40d7984de67e59a7d3390b9b9ecc upstream.

The kernel's ext4 mount-time checks were more permissive than
e2fsprogs's libext2fs checks when opening a file system.  The
superblock is considered too insane for debugfs or e2fsck to operate
on it, the kernel has no business trying to mount it.

This will make file system fuzzing tools work harder, but the failure
cases that they find will be more useful and be easier to evaluate.

Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
fs/ext4/super.c