releases/2.6.17.11/have-ext3-reject-file-handles-with-bad-inode-numbers-early.patch

From stable-bounces@linux.kernel.org Fri Aug  4 08:36:24 2006
Message-ID: <44D36946.7020601@redhat.com>
Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2006 10:35:34 -0500
From: Eric Sandeen <esandeen@redhat.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>, Eric Sandeen <esandeen@redhat.com>,
        Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
        stable@kernel.org, torvalds@osdl.org,
        Justin Forbes <jmforbes@linuxtx.org>,
        Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@arm.linux.org.uk>,
        "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>, Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>,
        Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>, Chuck Wolber <chuckw@quantumlinux.com>,
        Chris Wedgwood <reviews@ml.cw.f00f.org>, akpm@osdl.org,
        alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, jack@suse.cz, neilb@suse.de,
        Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>,
        "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>
Subject: Have ext3 reject file handles with bad inode numbers early

blatantly ripped off from Neil Brown's ext2 patch.


Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
Acked-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

---
 fs/ext3/super.c |   40 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 40 insertions(+)

--- linux-2.6.17.8.orig/fs/ext3/super.c
+++ linux-2.6.17.8/fs/ext3/super.c
@@ -620,8 +620,48 @@ static struct super_operations ext3_sops
 #endif
 };
 
+static struct dentry *ext3_get_dentry(struct super_block *sb, void *vobjp)
+{
+	__u32 *objp = vobjp;
+	unsigned long ino = objp[0];
+	__u32 generation = objp[1];
+	struct inode *inode;
+	struct dentry *result;
+
+	if (ino != EXT3_ROOT_INO && ino < EXT3_FIRST_INO(sb))
+		return ERR_PTR(-ESTALE);
+	if (ino > le32_to_cpu(EXT3_SB(sb)->s_es->s_inodes_count))
+		return ERR_PTR(-ESTALE);
+
+	/* iget isn't really right if the inode is currently unallocated!!
+	 * ext3_read_inode currently does appropriate checks, but
+	 * it might be "neater" to call ext3_get_inode first and check
+	 * if the inode is valid.....
+	 */
+	inode = iget(sb, ino);
+	if (inode == NULL)
+		return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
+	if (is_bad_inode(inode)
+	    || (generation && inode->i_generation != generation)
+		) {
+		/* we didn't find the right inode.. */
+		iput(inode);
+		return ERR_PTR(-ESTALE);
+	}
+	/* now to find a dentry.
+	 * If possible, get a well-connected one
+	 */
+	result = d_alloc_anon(inode);
+	if (!result) {
+		iput(inode);
+		return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
+	}
+	return result;
+}
+
 static struct export_operations ext3_export_ops = {
 	.get_parent = ext3_get_parent,
+	.get_dentry = ext3_get_dentry,
 };
 
 enum {