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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2] ext4: fix WARNING in ext4_expand_extra_isize_ea
On Thu, Dec 01, 2022 at 10:59:23PM +0800, Ye Bin wrote:
>
> Reason is allocate 16M memory by kmalloc, but MAX_ORDER is 11, kmalloc
> can allocate maxium size memory is 4M.
> XATTR_SIZE_MAX is currently 64k, but EXT4_XATTR_SIZE_MAX is '(1 << 24)',
> so 'ext4_xattr_check_entries()' regards this length as legal. Then trigger
> warning in 'ext4_xattr_move_to_block()'.
> To solve above issue, according to Jan Kara's suggestion use kvmalloc()
> to allocate memory in ext4_xattr_move_to_block().

See my comment to the v1 version of the patch. I suspect the real
problem is that the e_value_size is completely bogus, and we should
have checked it much earlier in the stack call trace, via a call to
xattr_check_inode().

Cheers,

- Ted

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