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    ext4: only use i_size_high for regular files · 06a279d6
    Theodore Ts'o authored
    Directories are not allowed to be bigger than 2GB, so don't use
    i_size_high for anything other than regular files.  E2fsck should
    complain about these inodes, but the simplest thing to do for the
    kernel is to only use i_size_high for regular files.
    
    This prevents an intentially corrupted filesystem from causing the
    kernel to burn a huge amount of CPU and issuing error messages such
    as:
    
    EXT4-fs warning (device loop0): ext4_block_to_path: block 135090028 > max
    
    Thanks to David Maciejak from Fortinet's FortiGuard Global Security
    Research Team for reporting this issue.
    
    http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12375Signed-off-by: default avatar"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
    Cc: stable@kernel.org
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