[PATCH, RFC] xfs: don't verify checksum on non-V5 superblocks
Eric Sandeen
sandeen at redhat.com
Thu Aug 15 13:19:15 CDT 2013
The current test in xfs_sb_read_verify() will attempt to validate
an sb checksum if sb_crc is non-zero, even if the superblock is not
marked as being version 5.
This runs the risk of picking up random garbage in sb_crc for non-V5
superblocks; such garbage is known to exist in the wild due to prior bugs.
This will cause verification to fail for otherwise non-fatal reasons.
I'm not sure of the point of trying to validate a non-V5 superblock;
is there one? Shouldn't this || be an &&? (Can sb_crc validly be
0 for a V5 SB?)
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen at redhat.com>
---
diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_mount.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_mount.c
index 2b0ba35..5ca299b 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_mount.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_mount.c
@@ -764,7 +764,7 @@ xfs_sb_read_verify(
*/
if (dsb->sb_magicnum == cpu_to_be32(XFS_SB_MAGIC) &&
(((be16_to_cpu(dsb->sb_versionnum) & XFS_SB_VERSION_NUMBITS) ==
- XFS_SB_VERSION_5) ||
+ XFS_SB_VERSION_5) &&
dsb->sb_crc != 0)) {
if (!xfs_verify_cksum(bp->b_addr, be16_to_cpu(dsb->sb_sectsize),
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