Theodore Ts'o 02945e49dc ext4: avoid running out of journal credits when appending to an inline file ...

commit 8bc1379b82 upstream.

Use a separate journal transaction if it turns out that we need to
convert an inline file to use an data block.  Otherwise we could end
up failing due to not having journal credits.

This addresses CVE-2018-10883.

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=200071

Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

2018-07-11 16:29:18 +02:00

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