ext4: reinforce check of i_dtime when clearing high fields of uid and gid
authorDaeho Jeong <daeho.jeong@samsung.com>
Tue, 6 Sep 2016 02:56:10 +0000 (22:56 -0400)
committerTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Tue, 6 Sep 2016 02:56:10 +0000 (22:56 -0400)
Now, ext4_do_update_inode() clears high 16-bit fields of uid/gid
of deleted and evicted inode to fix up interoperability with old
kernels. However, it checks only i_dtime of an inode to determine
whether the inode was deleted and evicted, and this is very risky,
because i_dtime can be used for the pointer maintaining orphan inode
list, too. We need to further check whether the i_dtime is being
used for the orphan inode list even if the i_dtime is not NULL.

We found that high 16-bit fields of uid/gid of inode are unintentionally
and permanently cleared when the inode truncation is just triggered,
but not finished, and the inode metadata, whose high uid/gid bits are
cleared, is written on disk, and the sudden power-off follows that
in order.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Daeho Jeong <daeho.jeong@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Hobin Woo <hobin.woo@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
fs/ext4/inode.c

index c6ea25a190f88b09354e93cb7245586af2dbc87a..15d4b4182ac79d2cfa74cd1b564802fe1b6ee811 100644 (file)
@@ -4814,14 +4814,14 @@ static int ext4_do_update_inode(handle_t *handle,
  * Fix up interoperability with old kernels. Otherwise, old inodes get
  * re-used with the upper 16 bits of the uid/gid intact
  */
-               if (!ei->i_dtime) {
+               if (ei->i_dtime && list_empty(&ei->i_orphan)) {
+                       raw_inode->i_uid_high = 0;
+                       raw_inode->i_gid_high = 0;
+               } else {
                        raw_inode->i_uid_high =
                                cpu_to_le16(high_16_bits(i_uid));
                        raw_inode->i_gid_high =
                                cpu_to_le16(high_16_bits(i_gid));
-               } else {
-                       raw_inode->i_uid_high = 0;
-                       raw_inode->i_gid_high = 0;
                }
        } else {
                raw_inode->i_uid_low = cpu_to_le16(fs_high2lowuid(i_uid));