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authorEric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>2007-10-17 02:27:15 -0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-10-17 11:42:53 -0400
commitf44ec6f3f89889a469773b1fd894f8fcc07c29cf (patch)
tree3b58f7b094e61c02536c7414906d7e29190979de /kernel
parentd8ea6cf89991000ae458e34e36379814cf202555 (diff)
limit minixfs printks on corrupted dir i_size
This attempts to address CVE-2006-6058 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-6058 first reported at http://projects.info-pull.com/mokb/MOKB-17-11-2006.html Essentially a corrupted minix dir inode reporting a very large i_size will loop for a very long time in minix_readdir, minix_find_entry, etc, because on EIO they just move on to try the next page. This is under the BKL, printk-storming as well. This can lock up the machine for a very long time. Simply ratelimiting the printks gets things back under control. Make the message a bit more informative while we're here. Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com> Cc: Bodo Eggert <7eggert@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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