We need to align the cache buffer to ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN in order to avoid
access errors like

CACHE: Misaligned operation at range [be0231e0, be0235e0]

seen on the MCIMX7SABRE.

Fixes: d5aee659f217 ("fs: ext4: cache extent data")
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Reviewed-by: Tom Rini <trini@konsulko.com>
Reviewed-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com>
Tested-by: Peter Robinson <pbrobinson@gmail.com>

At present dm/device.h includes the linux-compatible features. This
requires including linux/compat.h which in turn includes a lot of headers.
One of these is malloc.h which we thus end up including in every file in
U-Boot. Apart from the inefficiency of this, it is problematic for sandbox
which needs to use the system malloc() in some files.

Move the compatibility features into a separate header file.

Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>

In ext4fs_read_file in ext4fs.c, a memset can overwrite the bounds of
the destination memory region. This patch adds a check to disallow
this.

Signed-off-by: Paul Emge <paulemge@forallsecure.com>

This patch checks for 0 in several ext4 headers and gracefully
fails instead of raising a divide-by-0 exception.

Signed-off-by: Paul Emge <paulemge@forallsecure.com>

in ext4fs_read_file, it is possible for a broken/malicious file
system to cause a memcpy of a negative number of bytes, which
overflows all memory. This patch fixes the issue by checking for
a negative length.

Signed-off-by: Paul Emge <paulemge@forallsecure.com>

ext_cache_read doesn't null cache->buf, after freeing, which results
in a later function double-freeing it. This patch fixes
ext_cache_read to call ext_cache_fini instead of free.

Signed-off-by: Paul Emge <paulemge@forallsecure.com>

JOURNAL is optional for EXT4 (and EXT3) filesystems, so add support for
skipping it. This fixes corrupting EXT4 volumes without JOURNAL after
using uboot's 'ext4write' command.

Signed-off-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>
Reviewed-by: Lukasz Majewski <lukma@denx.de>

The block count entry in the EXT4 filesystem disk structures uses
standard 512-bytes units for most of the typical files. The only
exception are HUGE files, which use the filesystem block size, but those
are not supported by uboot's EXT4 implementation anyway. This patch fixes
the EXT4 code to use proper unit count for inode block count. This fixes
errors reported by fsck.ext4 on disks with non-standard (i.e. 4KiB, in
case of new flash drives) PHYSICAL block size after using 'ext4write'
uboot's command.

Signed-off-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>
Reviewed-by: Lukasz Majewski <lukma@denx.de>

Ext4 allows for arbitrarily sized block group descriptors when 64-bit
addressing is enabled, which was previously not properly supported. This
patch dynamically allocates a chunk of memory of the correct size.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Lim <jarsp.ctf@gmail.com>

Hi,

when I try to load a sparse file via ext4load, I am getting the error message
'invalid extent'

After a deeper look in the code, it seems to be an issue in the function ext4fs_get_extent_block in fs/ext4/ext4_common.c:

The file starts with 1k of zeros. The blocksize is 1024. So the first extend block contains the following information:

eh_entries: 1
eh_depth: 1
ei_block 1

When the upper layer (ext4fs_read_file) asks for fileblock 0, we are running in the 'invalid extent' error message.
For me it seems, that the code is not prepared for handling a sparse block at the beginning of the file. The following change, solved my problem:

I am really not an expert in ext4 filesystems. Can somebody please have a look at this issue and give me a feedback, if I am totally wrong or not?