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I run a small server that uses external hard drives for backups. The backup software I use uses ext2 filesystems with 4KiB block size and the server is running SELinux and therefore relies on xattr. I recently upgraded the hard drives from 4TB to 12TB models. I noticed that after transferring some TBs I got a filesystem error "Freeing blocks not in datazone - block = 18446744071529317386, count = 1" and the backup process stopped. Trying to fix the fs with e2fsck resulted in a completely corrupted fs. The error probably came from ext2_free_blocks(), and because of the large number 18e19 this problem immediately looked like some kind of integer overflow. Whereas the 4TB fs was about 1e9 blocks, the new 12TB is about 3e9 blocks. So, searching the ext2 code, I came across the line in fs/ext2/xattr.c:745 where ext2_new_block() is called and the resulting block number is stored in the variable block as an int datatype. If a block with a block number greater than INT32_MAX is returned, this variable overflows and the call to sb_getblk() at line fs/ext2/xattr.c:750 fails, then the call to ext2_free_blocks() produces the error. Signed-off-by: Georg Ottinger <g.ottinger@gmx.at> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Message-Id: <20230815100340.22121-1-g.ottinger@gmx.at> |
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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.
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.