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While reviewing the buffer item recovery code, the thought occurred to me: in V5 filesystems we use log sequence number (LSN) tracking to avoid replaying older metadata updates against newer log items. However, we use the magic number of the ondisk buffer to find the LSN of the ondisk metadata, which means that if an attacker can control the layout of the realtime device precisely enough that the start of an rt bitmap block matches the magic and UUID of some other kind of block, they can control the purported LSN of that spoofed block and thereby break log replay. Since realtime bitmap and summary blocks don't have headers at all, we have no way to tell if a block really should be replayed. The best we can do is replay unconditionally and hope for the best. Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Carlos Maiolino <cmaiolino@redhat.com>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.