Hi!

> When we traverse xattr entries via __find_xattr(),
> if the raw filesystem content is faked or any hardware failure occurs,
> out-of-bound error can be detected by KASAN.
> Fix the issue by introducing boundary check.

Ok, so this prevents fs corruption from causing problems,

> @@ -340,7 +347,11 @@ static int lookup_all_xattrs(struct inode *inode, struct 
> page *ipage,
>       else
>               cur_addr = txattr_addr;
>  
> -     *xe = __find_xattr(cur_addr, index, len, name);
> +     *xe = __find_xattr(cur_addr, last_txattr_addr, index, len, name);
> +     if (!*xe) {
> +             err = -EFAULT;
> +             goto out;
> +     }

Is -EFAULT suitable here? We do not have userspace passing pointers to us, we
have fs corruption. -EUNCLEAN?

Should it do some kind of printk to let the user know fs is corrupted, and mark
it as needing fsck?

Thanks,
                                                                        Pavel

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