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ext4: Fix softlockup caused by illegal i_file_acl value in on-disk inode
authorTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Fri, 24 Apr 2009 17:43:20 +0000 (13:43 -0400)
committerTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Fri, 24 Apr 2009 17:43:20 +0000 (13:43 -0400)
commit0320919897338e1aa991f12b0c5264d6b09a75e9
tree545ee089625b9b4131773eb26c57a51889deda78
parent9cb800c7ee7a01d12e95873c7a33abc83d4132f0
ext4: Fix softlockup caused by illegal i_file_acl value in on-disk inode

If the block containing external extended attributes (which is stored
in i_file_acl and i_file_acl_high) is larger than the on-disk
filesystem, the process which tried to access the extended attributes
will endlessly issue kernel printks complaining that
"__find_get_block_slow() failed", locking up that CPU until the system
is forcibly rebooted.

So when we read in the inode, make sure the i_file_acl value is legal,
and if not, flag the filesystem as being corrupted.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
fs/ext4/inode.c