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Qu Wenruo 75cb857d26 btrfs: Do super block verification before writing it to disk
There are already 2 reports about strangely corrupted super blocks,
where csum still matches but extra garbage gets slipped into super block.

The corruption would looks like:
------
superblock: bytenr=65536, device=/dev/sdc1
---------------------------------------------------------
csum_type               41700 (INVALID)
csum                    0x3b252d3a [match]
bytenr                  65536
flags                   0x1
                        ( WRITTEN )
magic                   _BHRfS_M [match]
...
incompat_flags          0x5b22400000000169
                        ( MIXED_BACKREF |
                          COMPRESS_LZO |
                          BIG_METADATA |
                          EXTENDED_IREF |
                          SKINNY_METADATA |
                          unknown flag: 0x5b22400000000000 )
...
------
Or
------
superblock: bytenr=65536, device=/dev/mapper/x
---------------------------------------------------------
csum_type              35355 (INVALID)
csum_size              32
csum                   0xf0dbeddd [match]
bytenr                 65536
flags                  0x1
                       ( WRITTEN )
magic                  _BHRfS_M [match]
...
incompat_flags         0x176d200000000169
                       ( MIXED_BACKREF |
                         COMPRESS_LZO |
                         BIG_METADATA |
                         EXTENDED_IREF |
                         SKINNY_METADATA |
                         unknown flag: 0x176d200000000000 )
------

Obviously, csum_type and incompat_flags get some garbage, but its csum
still matches, which means kernel calculates the csum based on corrupted
super block memory.
And after manually fixing these values, the filesystem is completely
healthy without any problem exposed by btrfs check.

Although the cause is still unknown, at least detect it and prevent further
corruption.

Both reports have same symptoms, there's an overwrite on offset 192 of
the superblock, by 4 bytes. The superblock structure is not allocated or
freed and stays in the memory for the whole filesystem lifetime, so it's
not a use-after-free kind of error on someone else's leaked page.

As a vague point for the problable cause is mentioning of other system
freezing related to graphic card drivers.

Reported-by: Ken Swenson <flat@imo.uto.moe>
Reported-by: Ben Parsons <9parsonsb@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Qu Wenruo <wqu@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
[ add brief analysis of the reports ]
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
2018-05-28 18:07:36 +02:00
arch ARM: SoC fixes for 4.17-rc 2018-05-26 14:05:16 -07:00
block blk-mq: fix sysfs inflight counter 2018-04-26 09:02:01 -06:00
certs
crypto crypto: drbg - set freed buffers to NULL 2018-04-21 00:57:00 +08:00
Documentation Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2018-05-25 19:54:42 -07:00
drivers ARM: SoC fixes for 4.17-rc 2018-05-26 14:05:16 -07:00
firmware
fs btrfs: Do super block verification before writing it to disk 2018-05-28 18:07:36 +02:00
include btrfs: qgroup: Allow trace_btrfs_qgroup_account_extent() to record its transid 2018-05-28 18:07:30 +02:00
init init/main.c: include <linux/mem_encrypt.h> 2018-05-25 18:12:11 -07:00
ipc ipc/shm: fix shmat() nil address after round-down when remapping 2018-05-25 18:12:11 -07:00
kernel Merge branch 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2018-05-26 13:10:16 -07:00
lib idr: fix invalid ptr dereference on item delete 2018-05-25 18:12:10 -07:00
LICENSES
mm kasan: fix memory hotplug during boot 2018-05-25 18:12:11 -07:00
net Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2018-05-25 19:54:42 -07:00
samples x86/cpufeature: Guard asm_volatile_goto usage for BPF compilation 2018-05-13 21:49:14 +02:00
scripts checkpatch: fix macro argument precedence test 2018-05-25 18:12:11 -07:00
security Merge branch 'fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2018-05-21 11:54:57 -07:00
sound ALSA: hda - Fix runtime PM 2018-05-24 20:16:47 +02:00
tools Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2018-05-25 20:24:28 -07:00
usr
virt KVM: arm/arm64: VGIC/ITS save/restore: protect kvm_read_guest() calls 2018-05-15 13:36:53 +02:00
.clang-format clang-format: add configuration file 2018-04-11 10:28:35 -07:00
.cocciconfig
.get_maintainer.ignore
.gitattributes
.gitignore Kbuild updates for v4.17 (2nd) 2018-04-15 17:21:30 -07:00
.mailmap Merge candidates for 4.17 merge window 2018-04-06 17:35:43 -07:00
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MAINTAINERS Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2018-05-25 20:24:28 -07:00
Makefile Linux 4.17-rc7 2018-05-27 13:01:47 -07:00
README

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.