linux-ext4 - [patch] ext4: off by one check in ext4_groupinfo_create

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Date:	Thu, 10 Feb 2011 02:24:12 +0300
From:	Dan Carpenter <error27@...il.com>
To:	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>, sandeen@...hat.com
Cc:	Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@...ger.ca>,
	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [patch] ext4: off by one check in ext4_groupinfo_create_slab()

If cache_index == NR_GRPINFO_CACHES then we read past the end of the
ext4_groupinfo_caches[] array a couple lines later.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@...il.com>

diff --git a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
index 02cff4a..d1fe09a 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
@@ -2438,7 +2438,7 @@ static int ext4_groupinfo_create_slab(size_t size)
 	int cache_index = blocksize_bits - EXT4_MIN_BLOCK_LOG_SIZE;
 	struct kmem_cache *cachep;
 
-	if (cache_index > NR_GRPINFO_CACHES)
+	if (cache_index >= NR_GRPINFO_CACHES)
 		return -EINVAL;
 
 	if (unlikely(cache_index < 0))
--
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