[PATCH] erofs: move erofs out of staging

Richard Weinberger richard at nod.at
Sun Aug 18 18:16:50 AEST 2019


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>> While digging a little into the code I noticed that you have very few
>> checks of the on-disk data.
>> For example ->u.i_blkaddr. I gave it a try and created a
>> malformed filesystem where u.i_blkaddr is 0xdeadbeef, it causes the kernel
>> to loop forever around erofs_read_raw_page().
> 
> I don't fuzz all the on-disk fields for EROFS, I will do later..
> You can see many in-kernel filesystems are still hardening the related
> stuff. Anyway, I will dig into this field you mentioned recently, but
> I think it can be fixed easily later.

This is no excuse to redo all these bugs. :-)

I know that many in-kernel filesystems trust the disk ultimately, this is a
problem and huge attack vector.

Thanks,
//richard


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