ext4: always verify the magic number in xattr blocks
authorTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Wed, 13 Jun 2018 04:51:28 +0000 (00:51 -0400)
committerTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Wed, 13 Jun 2018 04:51:28 +0000 (00:51 -0400)
commit513f86d73855ce556ea9522b6bfd79f87356dc3a
tree9bbb2fb100f1e49d7f04d365842c0b2670ac03d0
parent5369a762c882c0b6e9599e4ebbb3a9ba9eee7e2d
ext4: always verify the magic number in xattr blocks

If there an inode points to a block which is also some other type of
metadata block (such as a block allocation bitmap), the
buffer_verified flag can be set when it was validated as that other
metadata block type; however, it would make a really terrible external
attribute block.  The reason why we use the verified flag is to avoid
constantly reverifying the block.  However, it doesn't take much
overhead to make sure the magic number of the xattr block is correct,
and this will avoid potential crashes.

This addresses CVE-2018-10879.

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=200001

Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Reviewed-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@dilger.ca>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
fs/ext4/xattr.c