e2fsck: fix potential segv when handling a read error in a superblock
When passed a negative count (indicating a byte count rather than
a block count) e2fsck_handle_read_error() treats the data as a full
block, causing unix_write_blk64() (which can handle negative counts
just fine) to try to write too much. Given a faulty block device,
this resulted in a SEGV when unix_write_blk64() read past the bottom
of the stack copying the data to cache. (check_backup_super_block ->
unix_read_blk64 -> raw_read_blk -> e2fsck_handle_read_error)
Reported-by: Alex Friedman <alexfr@il.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Streetman <ddstreet@us.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Mingming Cao <mcao@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
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