ext4: Add sanity checks for the superblock before mounting the filesystem
This avoids insane superblock configurations that could lead to kernel oops due to null pointer derefences. http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12371 Thanks to David Maciejak at Fortinet's FortiGuard Global Security Research Team who discovered this bug independently (but at approximately the same time) as Thiemo Nagel, who submitted the patch. Signed-off-by: Thiemo Nagel <thiemo.nagel@ph.tum.de> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: stable@kernel.org
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