ext4: only use i_size_high for regular files
authorTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Sat, 17 Jan 2009 23:41:37 +0000 (18:41 -0500)
committerTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Sat, 17 Jan 2009 23:41:37 +0000 (18:41 -0500)
commit06a279d636734da32bb62dd2f7b0ade666f65d7c
treee3fb1a899ea7a9d527ff0d8edf3ca23778321728
parentc225aa57ff4ffe715df4692676b77c815a337236
ext4: only use i_size_high for regular files

Directories are not allowed to be bigger than 2GB, so don't use
i_size_high for anything other than regular files.  E2fsck should
complain about these inodes, but the simplest thing to do for the
kernel is to only use i_size_high for regular files.

This prevents an intentially corrupted filesystem from causing the
kernel to burn a huge amount of CPU and issuing error messages such
as:

EXT4-fs warning (device loop0): ext4_block_to_path: block 135090028 > max

Thanks to David Maciejak from Fortinet's FortiGuard Global Security
Research Team for reporting this issue.

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12375

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
fs/ext4/ext4.h
fs/ext4/inode.c