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[PATCH] forgotten ->b_data in memcpy() call in ext3/resize.c (oopsable) 

sbi->s_group_desc is an array of pointers to buffer_head.  memcpy() of
buffer size from address of buffer_head is a bad idea - it will generate
junk in any case, may oops if buffer_head is close to the end of slab
page and next page is not mapped and isn't what was intended there.
IOW, ->b_data is missing in that call.  Fortunately, result doesn't go
into the primary on-disk data structures, so only backup ones get crap
written to them; that had allowed this bug to remain unnoticed until
now.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Al Viro 2006-04-26 07:26:09 +01:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent c82ffb07cd
commit de0bb97aff
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@ -213,7 +213,7 @@ static int setup_new_group_blocks(struct super_block *sb,
goto exit_bh;
}
lock_buffer(bh);
memcpy(gdb->b_data, sbi->s_group_desc[i], bh->b_size);
memcpy(gdb->b_data, sbi->s_group_desc[i]->b_data, bh->b_size);
set_buffer_uptodate(gdb);
unlock_buffer(bh);
ext3_journal_dirty_metadata(handle, gdb);