ext4: forbid i_extra_isize not divisible by 4
i_extra_isize not divisible by 4 is problematic for several reasons: - It causes the in-inode xattr space to be misaligned, but the xattr header and entries are not declared __packed to express this possibility. This may cause poor performance or incorrect code generation on some platforms. - When validating the xattr entries we can read past the end of the inode if the size available for xattrs is not a multiple of 4. - It allows the nonsensical i_extra_isize=1, which doesn't even leave enough room for i_extra_isize itself. Therefore, update ext4_iget() to consider i_extra_isize not divisible by 4 to be an error, like the case where i_extra_isize is too large. This also matches the rule recently added to e2fsck for determining whether an inode has valid i_extra_isize. This patch shouldn't have any noticeable effect on non-corrupted/non-malicious filesystems, since the size of ext4_inode has always been a multiple of 4. Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com> Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Reviewed-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@dilger.ca>
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