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Sysbot has reported an "slab-out-of-bounds read" error which has been identified as being caused by a corrupted "ino_num" value read from the inode. This could be because the metadata block is uncompressed, or because the "compression" bit has been corrupted (turning a compressed block into an uncompressed block). This patch adds additional sanity checks to detect this, and the following corruption. 1. It checks against corruption of the inodes count. This can either lead to a larger table to be read, or a smaller than expected table to be read. In the case of a too large inodes count, this would often have been trapped by the existing sanity checks, but this patch introduces a more exact check, which can identify too small values. 2. It checks the contents of the index table for corruption. [phillip@squashfs.org.uk: fix checkpatch issue] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/527909353.754618.1612769948607@webmail.123-reg.co.uk Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210204130249.4495-4-phillip@squashfs.org.uk Signed-off-by: Phillip Lougher <phillip@squashfs.org.uk> Reported-by: syzbot+04419e3ff19d2970ea28@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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.