[PATCH] erofs: harden h_shared_count in erofs_init_inode_xattrs()

Gao Xiang hsiangkao at linux.alibaba.com
Wed Mar 18 00:29:31 AEDT 2026



On 2026/3/17 21:23, Utkal Singh wrote:
> `u8 h_shared_count` indicates the shared xattr count of an inode. It is
> read from the on-disk xattr ibody header, which should be corrupted if
> the size of the shared xattr array exceeds the space available in
> `xattr_isize`.
> 
> It does not cause harmful consequence (e.g. crashes), since the image is
> already considered corrupted, it indeed results in the silent processing
> of garbage metadata.
> 
> Let's harden it to report -EFSCORRUPTED earlier.
> 
> Fixes: 47e4937a4a7c ("erofs: move erofs out of staging")
> Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org

No, please drop the Fixes and Cc since it should not be a bugfix.

Thanks,
Gao Xiang


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