ext4: Check for an valid i_mode when reading the inode from disk
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
diff --git a/fs/ext4/inode.c b/fs/ext4/inode.c
index bed4a0a..c7d9250 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/inode.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c
@@ -4394,7 +4394,8 @@
inode->i_op = &ext4_symlink_inode_operations;
ext4_set_aops(inode);
}
- } else {
+ } else if (S_ISCHR(inode->i_mode) || S_ISBLK(inode->i_mode) ||
+ S_ISFIFO(inode->i_mode) || S_ISSOCK(inode->i_mode)) {
inode->i_op = &ext4_special_inode_operations;
if (raw_inode->i_block[0])
init_special_inode(inode, inode->i_mode,
@@ -4402,6 +4403,13 @@
else
init_special_inode(inode, inode->i_mode,
new_decode_dev(le32_to_cpu(raw_inode->i_block[1])));
+ } else {
+ brelse(bh);
+ ret = -EIO;
+ ext4_error(inode->i_sb, __func__,
+ "bogus i_mode (%o) for inode=%lu",
+ inode->i_mode, inode->i_ino);
+ goto bad_inode;
}
brelse(iloc.bh);
ext4_set_inode_flags(inode);