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Commit 4ec11028 authored by Theodore Ts'o's avatar Theodore Ts'o
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ext4: Add sanity checks for the superblock before mounting the filesystem



This avoids insane superblock configurations that could lead to kernel
oops due to null pointer derefences.

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12371

Thanks to David Maciejak at Fortinet's FortiGuard Global Security
Research Team who discovered this bug independently (but at
approximately the same time) as Thiemo Nagel, who submitted the patch.

Signed-off-by: default avatarThiemo Nagel <thiemo.nagel@ph.tum.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatar"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
parent b3881f74
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