From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2009 12:09:26 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: ext4: Check for an valid i_mode when reading the inode from disk
X-Git-Tag: v2.6.27.25~11
X-Git-Url: https://git.karo-electronics.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=ee098c1e0aafeae998f730a4864e5ef71970d132;p=karo-tx-linux.git

ext4: Check for an valid i_mode when reading the inode from disk

(cherry picked from commit 563bdd61fe4dbd6b58cf7eb06f8d8f14479ae1dc)

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
---

diff --git a/fs/ext4/inode.c b/fs/ext4/inode.c
index 06fe69415d9c..2bd8005e4758 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/inode.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c
@@ -4129,7 +4129,8 @@ struct inode *ext4_iget(struct super_block *sb, unsigned long ino)
 			inode->i_op = &ext4_symlink_inode_operations;
 			ext4_set_aops(inode);
 		}
-	} else {
+	} else if (S_ISCHR(inode->i_mode) || S_ISBLK(inode->i_mode) ||
+	      S_ISFIFO(inode->i_mode) || S_ISSOCK(inode->i_mode)) {
 		inode->i_op = &ext4_special_inode_operations;
 		if (raw_inode->i_block[0])
 			init_special_inode(inode, inode->i_mode,
@@ -4137,6 +4138,13 @@ struct inode *ext4_iget(struct super_block *sb, unsigned long ino)
 		else
 			init_special_inode(inode, inode->i_mode,
 			   new_decode_dev(le32_to_cpu(raw_inode->i_block[1])));
+	} else {
+		brelse(bh);
+		ret = -EIO;
+		ext4_error(inode->i_sb, __func__,
+			   "bogus i_mode (%o) for inode=%lu",
+			   inode->i_mode, inode->i_ino);
+		goto bad_inode;
 	}
 	brelse (iloc.bh);
 	ext4_set_inode_flags(inode);