ext4: Prevent creation of files larger than RLIMIT_FSIZE using fallocate
authorNikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@suse.de>
Sun, 16 May 2010 18:00:00 +0000 (14:00 -0400)
committerTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Sun, 16 May 2010 18:00:00 +0000 (14:00 -0400)
Currently using posix_fallocate one can bypass an RLIMIT_FSIZE limit
and create a file larger than the limit. Add a check for that.

Signed-off-by: Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Amit Arora <aarora@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
fs/ext4/extents.c

index ee611daf07486547651290e53d478ab51cb9451e..8a8f9f0be911b2d5191e928d3a7abe70e3f2f682 100644 (file)
@@ -3708,6 +3708,11 @@ long ext4_fallocate(struct inode *inode, int mode, loff_t offset, loff_t len)
         */
        credits = ext4_chunk_trans_blocks(inode, max_blocks);
        mutex_lock(&inode->i_mutex);
+       ret = inode_newsize_ok(inode, (len + offset));
+       if (ret) {
+               mutex_unlock(&inode->i_mutex);
+               return ret;
+       }
 retry:
        while (ret >= 0 && ret < max_blocks) {
                block = block + ret;