From: Joseph Qi <joseph.qi@linux.alibaba.com>
To: ZhengYuan Huang <gality369@gmail.com>
Cc: ocfs2-devel@lists.linux.dev, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
baijiaju1990@gmail.com, r33s3n6@gmail.com, zzzccc427@gmail.com,
Mark Fasheh <mark@fasheh.com>, Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ocfs2: validate inline dir size in ocfs2_dir_foreach_blk_id
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2026 18:03:00 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1dbba5a6-a7e2-49b4-8475-9f1d338efb5c@linux.alibaba.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260410062227.3881209-1-gality369@gmail.com>
On 4/10/26 2:22 PM, ZhengYuan Huang wrote:
> [BUG]
> A crafted inline-data directory can set i_size larger than id_count.
> readdir then walks past data->id_data and KASAN reports:
>
> BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in ocfs2_check_dir_entry.isra.0+0x31f/0x370 fs/ocfs2/dir.c:305
> Read of size 2 at addr ffff8880088f0008 by task syz.0.1936/4656
> Call Trace:
> ...
> ocfs2_check_dir_entry.isra.0+0x31f/0x370 fs/ocfs2/dir.c:305
> ocfs2_dir_foreach_blk_id+0x203/0xa70 fs/ocfs2/dir.c:1805
> ocfs2_dir_foreach_blk fs/ocfs2/dir.c:1933 [inline]
> ocfs2_readdir+0x4ba/0x520 fs/ocfs2/dir.c:1977
> wrap_directory_iterator+0x9c/0xe0 fs/readdir.c:65
> shared_ocfs2_readdir+0x29/0x40 fs/ocfs2/file.c:2822
> iterate_dir+0x276/0x9e0 fs/readdir.c:108
> __do_sys_getdents64 fs/readdir.c:410 [inline]
> __se_sys_getdents64 fs/readdir.c:396 [inline]
> __x64_sys_getdents64+0x143/0x2a0 fs/readdir.c:396
> ...
>
> [CAUSE]
> ocfs2_dir_foreach_blk_id() uses i_size_read(inode) as the loop bound
> after reading the inode block. Inline directories are only valid while
> i_size <= le16_to_cpu(data->id_count), but that invariant is never
> checked on read. Once ctx->pos reaches id_count, data->id_data +
> ctx->pos points past the inode block and can land in a freed neighbor
> page.
>
ocfs2_read_inode_block() has already validated dinode->i_size.
So how it happens for the corrupted in-memory i_size?
Thanks,
Joseph
> [FIX]
> Validate i_size_read(inode) against data->id_count immediately after
> ocfs2_read_inode_block(). If the inline directory size exceeds its
> on-disk capacity, return -EFSCORRUPTED before constructing any dirent
> pointer. Keep the change local to ocfs2_dir_foreach_blk_id() so the
> patch stays scoped to the readdir bug.
>
> Fixes: 23193e513d1c ("ocfs2: Read support for directories with inline data")
> Signed-off-by: ZhengYuan Huang <gality369@gmail.com>
> ---
> fs/ocfs2/dir.c | 8 +++++++-
> 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/ocfs2/dir.c b/fs/ocfs2/dir.c
> index 8c9c4825f984..fa537505d1a9 100644
> --- a/fs/ocfs2/dir.c
> +++ b/fs/ocfs2/dir.c
> @@ -1761,6 +1761,7 @@ static int ocfs2_dir_foreach_blk_id(struct inode *inode,
> struct dir_context *ctx)
> {
> int ret, i;
> + int error = 0;
> unsigned long offset = ctx->pos;
> struct buffer_head *di_bh = NULL;
> struct ocfs2_dinode *di;
> @@ -1777,6 +1778,12 @@ static int ocfs2_dir_foreach_blk_id(struct inode *inode,
> di = (struct ocfs2_dinode *)di_bh->b_data;
> data = &di->id2.i_data;
>
> + if (unlikely(i_size_read(inode) > le16_to_cpu(data->id_count))) {
> + error = -EFSCORRUPTED;
> + mlog_errno(error);
> + goto out;
> + }
> +
> while (ctx->pos < i_size_read(inode)) {
> /* If the dir block has changed since the last call to
> * readdir(2), then we might be pointing to an invalid
> @@ -1819,7 +1826,7 @@ static int ocfs2_dir_foreach_blk_id(struct inode *inode,
> }
> out:
> brelse(di_bh);
> - return 0;
> + return error;
> }
>
> /*
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2026-04-10 6:22 ZhengYuan Huang
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