ext4: verify extent header depth
Although the extent tree depth of 5 should enough be for the worst
case of 2*32 extents of length 1, the extent tree code does not
currently to merge nodes which are less than half-full with a sibling
node, or to shrink the tree depth if possible. So it's possible, at
least in theory, for the tree depth to be greater than 5. However,
even in the worst case, a tree depth of 32 is highly unlikely, and if
the file system is maliciously corrupted, an insanely large eh_depth
can cause memory allocation failures that will trigger kernel warnings
(here, eh_depth = 65280):
JBD2: ext4.exe wants too many credits credits:195849 rsv_credits:0 max:256
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WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 50 at fs/jbd2/transaction.c:293 start_this_handle+0x569/0x580
CPU: 0 PID: 50 Comm: ext4.exe Not tainted 4.7.0-rc5+ #508
Stack:
604a8947 625badd8 0002fd09 00000000
60078643 00000000 62623910 601bf9bc
62623970 6002fc84 626239b0 900000125
Call Trace:
[<6001c2dc>] show_stack+0xdc/0x1a0
[<601bf9bc>] dump_stack+0x2a/0x2e
[<6002fc84>] __warn+0x114/0x140
[<6002fdff>] warn_slowpath_null+0x1f/0x30
[<60165829>] start_this_handle+0x569/0x580
[<60165d4e>] jbd2__journal_start+0x11e/0x220
[<60146690>] __ext4_journal_start_sb+0x60/0xa0
[<60120a81>] ext4_truncate+0x131/0x3a0
[<60123677>] ext4_setattr+0x757/0x840
[<600d5d0f>] notify_change+0x16f/0x2a0
[<600b2b16>] do_truncate+0x76/0xc0
[<600c3e56>] path_openat+0x806/0x1300
[<600c55c9>] do_filp_open+0x89/0xf0
[<600b4074>] do_sys_open+0x134/0x1e0
[<600b4140>] SyS_open+0x20/0x30
[<6001ea68>] handle_syscall+0x88/0x90
[<600295fd>] userspace+0x3fd/0x500
[<6001ac55>] fork_handler+0x85/0x90
---[ end trace 08b0b88b6387a244 ]---
[ Commit message modified and the extent tree depath check changed
from 5 to 32 -- tytso ]
Cc: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
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