CVE-2022-49879

CVE-2022-49879 affects the Linux kernel ext4 code. A corrupted directory entry where rec_len is invalid (not a multiple of 4) can cause a kernel BUG() in ext4_rec_len_to_disk() called from make_indexed_dir(). The fix adds a validation step via ext4_check_dir_entry(), returning -EFSCORRUPTED for i...