On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 12:56:22PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 01:10:16PM -0700, [email protected] wrote:
> > From: Dave Chinner <[email protected]>
> > 
> > Upstream commit: 4536f2ad8b330453d7ebec0746c4374eadd649b1
> > 
> > Commit 7124fe0a5b619d65b739477b3b55a20bf805b06d ("xfs: validate untrusted 
> > inode
> > numbers during lookup") changes the inode lookup code to do btree lookups 
> > for
> > untrusted inode numbers. This change made an invalid assumption about the
> > alignment of inodes and hence incorrectly calculated the first inode in the
> > cluster. As a result, some inode numbers were being incorrectly considered
> > invalid when they were actually valid.
> > 
> > The issue was not picked up by the xfstests suite because it always runs fsr
> > and dump (the two utilities that utilise the bulkstat interface) on cache 
> > hot
> > inodes and hence the lookup code in the cold cache path was not sufficiently
> > exercised to uncover this intermittent problem.
> > 
> > Fix the issue by relaxing the btree lookup criteria and then checking if the
> > record returned contains the inode number we are lookup for. If it we get an
> > incorrect record, then the inode number is invalid.
> > 
> > Cc: <[email protected]>
> > Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <[email protected]>
> > Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
> > [dannf: Backported to 2.6.32.y]
> 
> This still doesn't apply to the .32-longterm tree, care to try again?
>       patching file fs/xfs/xfs_ialloc.c
>       Hunk #1 FAILED at 1220.
>       Hunk #2 FAILED at 1236.
>       Hunk #3 FAILED at 1255.
>       3 out of 3 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file 
> fs/xfs/xfs_ialloc.c.rej

Oh wait, you want the first 5 patches applied first, doh, sorry for the
noise, I'll work on that after lunch...

greg k-h

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