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Commit c878bea3 authored by Theodore Ts'o's avatar Theodore Ts'o
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ext4: filter out EXT4_FC_REPLAY from on-disk superblock field s_state



The EXT4_FC_REPLAY bit in sbi->s_mount_state is used to indicate that
we are in the middle of replay the fast commit journal.  This was
actually a mistake, since the sbi->s_mount_info is initialized from
es->s_state.  Arguably s_mount_state is misleadingly named, but the
name is historical --- s_mount_state and s_state dates back to ext2.

What should have been used is the ext4_{set,clear,test}_mount_flag()
inline functions, which sets EXT4_MF_* bits in sbi->s_mount_flags.

The problem with using EXT4_FC_REPLAY is that a maliciously corrupted
superblock could result in EXT4_FC_REPLAY getting set in
s_mount_state.  This bypasses some sanity checks, and this can trigger
a BUG() in ext4_es_cache_extent().  As a easy-to-backport-fix, filter
out the EXT4_FC_REPLAY bit for now.  We should eventually transition
away from EXT4_FC_REPLAY to something like EXT4_MF_REPLAY.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: default avatarTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220420192312.1655305-1-phind.uet@gmail.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220517174028.942119-1-tytso@mit.edu
Reported-by: default avatar <syzbot+c7358a3cd05ee786eb31@syzkaller.appspotmail.com>
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