Vulnerability CVE-2021-47117
Published: 2024-03-15

Description:
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ext4: fix bug on in ext4_es_cache_extent as ext4_split_extent_at failed

We got follow bug_on when run fsstress with injecting IO fault:
[130747.323114] kernel BUG at fs/ext4/extents_status.c:762!
[130747.323117] Internal error: Oops - BUG: 0 [#1] SMP
......
[130747.334329] Call trace:
[130747.334553] ext4_es_cache_extent+0x150/0x168 [ext4]
[130747.334975] ext4_cache_extents+0x64/0xe8 [ext4]
[130747.335368] ext4_find_extent+0x300/0x330 [ext4]
[130747.335759] ext4_ext_map_blocks+0x74/0x1178 [ext4]
[130747.336179] ext4_map_blocks+0x2f4/0x5f0 [ext4]
[130747.336567] ext4_mpage_readpages+0x4a8/0x7a8 [ext4]
[130747.336995] ext4_readpage+0x54/0x100 [ext4]
[130747.337359] generic_file_buffered_read+0x410/0xae8
[130747.337767] generic_file_read_iter+0x114/0x190
[130747.338152] ext4_file_read_iter+0x5c/0x140 [ext4]
[130747.338556] __vfs_read+0x11c/0x188
[130747.338851] vfs_read+0x94/0x150
[130747.339110] ksys_read+0x74/0xf0

This patch's modification is according to Jan Kara's suggestion in:
https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/linux-ext4/patch/20210428085158.3728201-1-yebin10@huawei.com/
"I see. Now I understand your patch. Honestly, seeing how fragile is trying
to fix extent tree after split has failed in the middle, I would probably
go even further and make sure we fix the tree properly in case of ENOSPC
and EDQUOT (those are easily user triggerable). Anything else indicates a
HW problem or fs corruption so I'd rather leave the extent tree as is and
don't try to fix it (which also means we will not create overlapping
extents)."

 References:
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e33bafad30d34cfa5e9787cb099cab05e2677fcb
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5b3a9a2be59478b013a430ac57b0f3d65471b071
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d8116743ef5432336289256b2f7c117299213eb9
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/569496aa3776eea1ff0d49d0174ac1b7e861e107
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/920697b004e49cb026e2e15fe91be065bf0741b7
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d3b668b96ad3192c0581a248ae2f596cd054792a
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/48105dc98c9ca35af418746277b087cb2bc6df7c
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/082cd4ec240b8734a82a89ffb890216ac98fec68
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