[1977] 2009-02-07 Robert Millan <[email protected]>

Robert Millan <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.boot-loaders.grub.cvs
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Revision: 1977
          http://svn.sv.gnu.org/viewvc/?view=rev&root=grub&revision=1977
Author:   robertmh
Date:     2009-02-07 23:13:48 +0000 (Sat, 07 Feb 2009)

Log Message:
-----------
2009-02-07  Robert Millan  <[email protected]>

        * fs/ext2.c (grub_ext2_mount): Avoid mounting filesystems with
        backward-incompatible features.

        Based on patch from Javier Mart?\195?\173n, with some adjustments.

Modified Paths:
--------------
    trunk/grub2/ChangeLog
    trunk/grub2/fs/ext2.c

Modified: trunk/grub2/ChangeLog
===================================================================
--- trunk/grub2/ChangeLog	2009-02-07 20:57:23 UTC (rev 1976)
+++ trunk/grub2/ChangeLog	2009-02-07 23:13:48 UTC (rev 1977)
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+2009-02-07  Robert Millan  <[email protected]>
+
+	* fs/ext2.c (grub_ext2_mount): Avoid mounting filesystems with
+	backward-incompatible features.
+
+	Based on patch from Javier Martín, with some adjustments.
+
 2009-02-07  Michael Scherer <[email protected]>
 
 	* fs/hfs.c (grub_hfsplus_iterate_dir): Treat hfs+ as case insensitive.

Modified: trunk/grub2/fs/ext2.c
===================================================================
--- trunk/grub2/fs/ext2.c	2009-02-07 20:57:23 UTC (rev 1976)
+++ trunk/grub2/fs/ext2.c	2009-02-07 23:13:48 UTC (rev 1977)
@@ -71,8 +71,53 @@
          ? EXT2_GOOD_OLD_INODE_SIZE \
          : grub_le_to_cpu16 (data->sblock.inode_size))
 
-#define EXT3_FEATURE_COMPAT_HAS_JOURNAL	0x0004
+/* Superblock filesystem feature flags (RW compatible)
+ * A filesystem with any of these enabled can be read and written by a driver
+ * that does not understand them without causing metadata/data corruption */
+#define EXT2_FEATURE_COMPAT_DIR_PREALLOC	0x0001
+#define EXT2_FEATURE_COMPAT_IMAGIC_INODES	0x0002
+#define EXT3_FEATURE_COMPAT_HAS_JOURNAL		0x0004
+#define EXT2_FEATURE_COMPAT_EXT_ATTR		0x0008
+#define EXT2_FEATURE_COMPAT_RESIZE_INODE	0x0010
+#define EXT2_FEATURE_COMPAT_DIR_INDEX		0x0020
+/* Superblock filesystem feature flags (RO compatible)
+ * A filesystem with any of these enabled can be safely read by a driver that
+ * does not understand them, but should not be written to, usually because
+ * additional metadata is required */
+#define EXT2_FEATURE_RO_COMPAT_SPARSE_SUPER	0x0001
+#define EXT2_FEATURE_RO_COMPAT_LARGE_FILE	0x0002
+#define EXT2_FEATURE_RO_COMPAT_BTREE_DIR	0x0004
+#define EXT4_FEATURE_RO_COMPAT_GDT_CSUM		0x0010
+#define EXT4_FEATURE_RO_COMPAT_DIR_NLINK	0x0020
+#define EXT4_FEATURE_RO_COMPAT_EXTRA_ISIZE	0x0040
+/* Superblock filesystem feature flags (back-incompatible)
+ * A filesystem with any of these enabled should not be attempted to be read
+ * by a driver that does not understand them, since they usually indicate
+ * metadata format changes that might confuse the reader. */
+#define EXT2_FEATURE_INCOMPAT_COMPRESSION	0x0001
+#define EXT2_FEATURE_INCOMPAT_FILETYPE		0x0002
+#define EXT3_FEATURE_INCOMPAT_RECOVER		0x0004 /* Needs recovery */
+#define EXT3_FEATURE_INCOMPAT_JOURNAL_DEV	0x0008 /* Volume is journal device */
+#define EXT2_FEATURE_INCOMPAT_META_BG		0x0010
+#define EXT4_FEATURE_INCOMPAT_EXTENTS		0x0040 /* Extents used */
+#define EXT4_FEATURE_INCOMPAT_64BIT		0x0080
+#define EXT4_FEATURE_INCOMPAT_FLEX_BG		0x0200
 
+/* The set of back-incompatible features this driver DOES support. Add (OR)
+ * flags here as the related features are implemented into the driver */
+#define EXT2_DRIVER_SUPPORTED_INCOMPAT ( EXT2_FEATURE_INCOMPAT_FILETYPE \
+                                       | EXT4_FEATURE_INCOMPAT_EXTENTS )
+/* List of rationales for the ignored "incompatible" features:
+ * needs_recovery: Not really back-incompatible - was added as such to forbid
+ *                 ext2 drivers from mounting an ext3 volume with a dirty
+ *                 journal because they will ignore the journal, but the next
+ *                 ext3 driver to mount the volume will find the journal and
+ *                 replay it, potentially corrupting the metadata written by
+ *                 the ext2 drivers
+ */
+#define EXT2_DRIVER_IGNORED_INCOMPAT ( EXT3_FEATURE_INCOMPAT_RECOVER )
+
+
 #define EXT3_JOURNAL_MAGIC_NUMBER	0xc03b3998U
 
 #define EXT3_JOURNAL_DESCRIPTOR_BLOCK	1
@@ -503,8 +548,20 @@
 
   /* Make sure this is an ext2 filesystem.  */
   if (grub_le_to_cpu16 (data->sblock.magic) != EXT2_MAGIC)
-    goto fail;
+    {
+      grub_error (GRUB_ERR_BAD_FS, "not an ext2 filesystem");
+      goto fail;
+    }
   
+  /* Check the FS doesn't have feature bits enabled that we don't support. */
+  if (grub_le_to_cpu32 (data->sblock.feature_incompat)
+        & ~(EXT2_DRIVER_SUPPORTED_INCOMPAT | EXT2_DRIVER_IGNORED_INCOMPAT))
+    {
+      grub_error (GRUB_ERR_BAD_FS, "filesystem has unsupported incompatible features");
+      goto fail;
+    }
+    
+  
   data->disk = disk;
 
   data->diropen.data = data;
@@ -520,7 +577,6 @@
   return data;
 
  fail:
-  grub_error (GRUB_ERR_BAD_FS, "not an ext2 filesystem");
   grub_free (data);
   return 0;
 }
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