UPSTREAM: ext4: refuse to create ea block when umounted commit f31173c19901a96bb2ebf6bcfec8a08df7095c91 upstream. The ea block expansion need to access s_root while it is already set as NULL when umount is triggered. Refuse this request to avoid panic. Reported-by: syzbot+2dacb8f015bf1420155f@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Link: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?id=3613786cb88c93aa1c6a279b1df6a7b201347d08 Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230103014517.495275-3-jun.nie@linaro.org Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jun Nie <jun.nie@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Bug: 262267471 Change-Id: I0a5c974e696cf7a132f3cbb8acbe066edba4660f Signed-off-by: Tudor Ambarus <tudor.ambarus@linaro.org>
diff --git a/fs/ext4/xattr.c b/fs/ext4/xattr.c index 55b7b7e..682c64b 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/xattr.c +++ b/fs/ext4/xattr.c
@@ -1422,6 +1422,13 @@ static struct inode *ext4_xattr_inode_create(handle_t *handle, uid_t owner[2] = { i_uid_read(inode), i_gid_read(inode) }; int err; + if (inode->i_sb->s_root == NULL) { + ext4_warning(inode->i_sb, + "refuse to create EA inode when umounting"); + WARN_ON(1); + return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL); + } + /* * Let the next inode be the goal, so we try and allocate the EA inode * in the same group, or nearby one.