xfs: fix type confusion in xfs_ioc_swapext
Without this check, the following XFS_I invocations would return bad pointers when used on non-XFS inodes (perhaps pointers into preceding allocator chunks). This could be used by an attacker to trick xfs_swap_extents into performing locking operations on attacker-chosen structures in kernel memory, potentially leading to code execution in the kernel. (I have not investigated how likely this is to be usable for an attack in practice.) Signed-off-by: Jann Horn <jann@thejh.net> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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