ext4: fail ext4_iget if special inode unallocated
In ext4_fill_super(), EXT4_ORPHAN_FS flag is cleared after ext4_orphan_cleanup() is executed. Therefore, when __ext4_iget() is called to get an inode whose i_nlink is 0 when the flag exists, no error is returned. If the inode is a special inode, a null pointer dereference may occur. If the value of i_nlink is 0 for any inodes (except boot loader inodes) got by using the EXT4_IGET_SPECIAL flag, the current file system is corrupted. Therefore, make the ext4_iget() function return an error if it gets such an abnormal special inode. Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=199179 Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=216541 Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=216539 Reported-by: Luís Henriques <lhenriques@suse.de> Suggested-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Baokun Li <libaokun1@huawei.com> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230107032126.4165860-2-libaokun1@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
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