From: Deepanshu Kartikey <kartikey406@gmail.com>
To: tytso@mit.edu, adilger.kernel@dilger.ca
Cc: yi.zhang@huaweicloud.com, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Deepanshu Kartikey <kartikey406@gmail.com>,
syzbot+038b7bf43423e132b308@syzkaller.appspotmail.com,
Zhang Yi <yi.zhang@huawei.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2] ext4: detect invalid INLINE_DATA + EXTENTS flag combination
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2025 21:13:08 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250929154308.360315-1-kartikey406@gmail.com> (raw)
syzbot reported a BUG_ON in ext4_es_cache_extent() when opening a verity
file on a corrupted ext4 filesystem mounted without a journal.
The issue is that the filesystem has an inode with both the INLINE_DATA
and EXTENTS flags set:
EXT4-fs error (device loop0): ext4_cache_extents:545: inode #15:
comm syz.0.17: corrupted extent tree: lblk 0 < prev 66
Investigation revealed that the inode has both flags set:
DEBUG: inode 15 - flag=1, i_inline_off=164, has_inline=1, extents_flag=1
This is an invalid combination since an inode should have either:
- INLINE_DATA: data stored directly in the inode
- EXTENTS: data stored in extent-mapped blocks
Having both flags causes ext4_has_inline_data() to return true, skipping
extent tree validation in __ext4_iget(). The unvalidated out-of-order
extents then trigger a BUG_ON in ext4_es_cache_extent() due to integer
underflow when calculating hole sizes.
Fix this by detecting this invalid flag combination early in ext4_iget()
and rejecting the corrupted inode.
Reported-and-tested-by: syzbot+038b7bf43423e132b308@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=038b7bf43423e132b308
Suggested-by: Zhang Yi <yi.zhang@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Deepanshu Kartikey <kartikey406@gmail.com>
---
Changes in v2:
- Instead of adding validation in ext4_find_extent(), detect the invalid
INLINE_DATA + EXTENTS flag combination in ext4_iget() as suggested by
Zhang Yi to avoid redundant checks in the extent lookup path
fs/ext4/inode.c | 9 +++++++++
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)
diff --git a/fs/ext4/inode.c b/fs/ext4/inode.c
index 5b7a15db4953..71fa3faa1475 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/inode.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c
@@ -5445,6 +5445,15 @@ struct inode *__ext4_iget(struct super_block *sb, unsigned long ino,
}
ret = 0;
+ /* Detect invalid flag combination - can't have both inline data and extents */
+ if (ext4_test_inode_flag(inode, EXT4_INODE_INLINE_DATA) &&
+ ext4_test_inode_flag(inode, EXT4_INODE_EXTENTS)) {
+ ext4_error_inode(inode, __func__, __LINE__, 0,
+ "inode has both inline data and extents flags");
+ ret = -EFSCORRUPTED;
+ goto bad_inode;
+ }
+
if (ei->i_file_acl &&
!ext4_inode_block_valid(inode, ei->i_file_acl, 1)) {
ext4_error_inode(inode, function, line, 0,
--
2.43.0
next reply other threads:[~2025-09-29 15:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-09-29 15:43 Deepanshu Kartikey [this message]
2025-09-30 8:34 ` Zhang Yi
2025-09-30 9:02 Deepanshu Kartikey
2025-09-30 9:15 ` Zhang Yi
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