* [PATCH 0/2] hfs, hfsplus: bound the partition-table and wrapper hops
@ 2026-09-26 8:40 Matthias Goergens
2026-09-26 8:40 ` [PATCH 1/2] hfs: bound the partition-table hop in hfs_mdb_get() Matthias Goergens
2026-09-26 8:40 ` [PATCH 2/2] hfsplus: bound the wrapper and partition-table hops in hfsplus_read_wrapper() Matthias Goergens
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From: Matthias Goergens @ 2026-09-26 8:40 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Viacheslav Dubeyko
Cc: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz, Yangtao Li, linux-fsdevel, linux-kernel
hfs_mdb_get() and hfsplus_read_wrapper() follow a partition table, and
hfsplus also an HFS wrapper, back to the volume header with no bound on
how often. A partition entry or wrapper descriptor with a zero offset
sends the loop back to the header it has just read, and a crafted image
hangs the mount.
These patches allow each kind of hop at most once: one partition-table
hop, before any wrapper hop, and one wrapper hop. TN1150 requires a
wrapper's embedded volume to be HFS Plus, so a second wrapper is never
valid. Apple documents no nested partition maps, and neither macOS nor
the boot ROM reads one. With both limits, plain, wrapped, partitioned
and partitioned-then-wrapped volumes still mount under QEMU.
If you would rather not rely on that, the alternative is to reject only
a hop that does not advance part_start. Both hops add unsigned offsets,
so the loop then always ends, but a crafted chain of one-sector hops
can cost a synchronous read per sector of the device before it does,
which on slow media such as a CD adds up. I can send that instead.
Matthias Goergens (2):
hfs: bound the partition-table hop in hfs_mdb_get()
hfsplus: bound the wrapper and partition-table hops in
hfsplus_read_wrapper()
fs/hfs/mdb.c | 10 +++++++++-
fs/hfsplus/wrapper.c | 15 +++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--
2.55.0
^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread* [PATCH 1/2] hfs: bound the partition-table hop in hfs_mdb_get()
2026-09-26 8:40 [PATCH 0/2] hfs, hfsplus: bound the partition-table and wrapper hops Matthias Goergens
@ 2026-09-26 8:40 ` Matthias Goergens
2026-09-26 8:40 ` [PATCH 2/2] hfsplus: bound the wrapper and partition-table hops in hfsplus_read_wrapper() Matthias Goergens
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From: Matthias Goergens @ 2026-09-26 8:40 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Viacheslav Dubeyko
Cc: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz, Yangtao Li, linux-fsdevel, linux-kernel
hfs_mdb_get() loops "while (1)" around hfs_part_find(), rereading the
volume header wherever the partition table points. A partition entry
with a zero start (pdStart or pmPyPartStart) leaves part_start where it
was, and the loop reads the same blocks forever.
An Apple partition map sits at the start of the raw device: the boot ROM
reads it from block 1 (TN1189), and nothing Apple documents nests one
inside a partition. Follow at most one partition-table hop and fail
with -EIO after that, as for a table that cannot be parsed. A zero
start is caught on the second pass, when the loop comes round again.
Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Matthias Goergens <matthias.goergens@gmail.com>
---
A partition entry pointing at its own table hangs the mount forever
without this patch and fails at once with it:
img=hfs-partmap-loop.img
put() { printf "$2" | dd of=$img bs=1 seek=$1 conv=notrunc status=none; }
truncate --size=64K $img
put $((512+0x00)) '\x50\x4d' # pmSig 'PM'
put $((512+0x04)) '\x00\x00\x00\x01' # pmMapBlkCnt 1
put $((512+0x08)) '\x00\x00\x00\x00' # pmPyPartStart 0 (self)
put $((512+0x0c)) '\x00\x00\x00\x64' # pmPartBlkCnt 100
put $((512+0x30)) 'Apple_HFS' # pmPartType
mount -o ro,loop -t hfs $img /mnt
---
fs/hfs/mdb.c | 10 +++++++++-
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/fs/hfs/mdb.c b/fs/hfs/mdb.c
index 277de712f9d4..1704f332e28d 100644
--- a/fs/hfs/mdb.c
+++ b/fs/hfs/mdb.c
@@ -134,6 +134,7 @@ int hfs_mdb_get(struct super_block *sb)
sector_t part_start, part_size;
loff_t off;
__be16 attrib;
+ bool part_hop_done = false;
/* set the device driver to 512-byte blocks */
size = sb_min_blocksize(sb, HFS_SECTOR_SIZE);
@@ -152,11 +153,18 @@ int hfs_mdb_get(struct super_block *sb)
break;
brelse(bh);
- /* check for a partition block
+ /*
+ * check for a partition block
* (should do this only for cdrom/loop though)
+ *
+ * The partition map is at the start of the device: follow
+ * it once, or an entry pointing at itself loops forever.
*/
+ if (part_hop_done)
+ return -EIO;
if (hfs_part_find(sb, &part_start, &part_size))
return -EIO;
+ part_hop_done = true;
}
HFS_SB(sb)->alloc_blksz = size = be32_to_cpu(mdb->drAlBlkSiz);
base-commit: 6812ce4e4379ffc99c52401ec28f0d7ffbc36206
--
2.55.0
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2026-09-26 8:40 [PATCH 0/2] hfs, hfsplus: bound the partition-table and wrapper hops Matthias Goergens
2026-09-26 8:40 ` [PATCH 1/2] hfs: bound the partition-table hop in hfs_mdb_get() Matthias Goergens
@ 2026-09-26 8:40 ` Matthias Goergens
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From: Matthias Goergens @ 2026-09-26 8:40 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Viacheslav Dubeyko
Cc: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz, Yangtao Li, linux-fsdevel, linux-kernel
hfsplus_read_wrapper() rereads the volume header through a bare "goto
reread", following an HFS wrapper's embedded-volume descriptor or, if
the header matches neither signature, the partition-table fallback it
shares with hfs, with no bound on either. A descriptor or partition
entry with a zero offset leaves part_start where it was, and the mount
loops forever.
TN1150 ("HFS Plus Volume Format") requires a wrapper's embedded volume
to be HFS Plus: "When an HFS Plus volume is embedded, drEmbedSigWord
must be kHFSPlusSigWord ('H+')". So there is at most one wrapper hop,
and Apple's hfs code, GRUB and 7-Zip all follow it once. A partition
map sits at the start of the raw device (previous patch), so a
partition-table hop only makes sense before any wrapper hop. Allow one
of each, in that order, and fail with -EINVAL otherwise. A zero offset
is caught on the second pass.
Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Matthias Goergens <matthias.goergens@gmail.com>
---
A wrapper whose embedded-volume descriptor points back at itself
hangs the mount forever without this patch and fails at once with it:
img=hfsplus-wrapper-loop.img
put() { printf "$2" | dd of=$img bs=1 seek=$1 conv=notrunc status=none; }
truncate --size=64K $img
put $((1024 + 0x00)) '\x42\x44' # drSigWord 'BD'
put $((1024 + 0x0a)) '\x82\x00' # drAtrb: SLOCK | SPARED
put $((1024 + 0x14)) '\x00\x00\x02\x00' # drAlBlkSiz 512
put $((1024 + 0x7c)) '\x48\x2b' # drEmbedSigWord 'H+'
put $((1024 + 0x7e)) '\x00\x00\x00\x64' # drEmbedExtent: start 0, count 100
mount -o ro,loop -t hfsplus $img /mnt
The same partition-table entry as the hfs patch hangs an hfsplus mount
the same way:
img=hfsplus-partmap-loop.img
put() { printf "$2" | dd of=$img bs=1 seek=$1 conv=notrunc status=none; }
truncate --size=64K $img
put $((512+0x00)) '\x50\x4d' # pmSig 'PM'
put $((512+0x04)) '\x00\x00\x00\x01' # pmMapBlkCnt 1
put $((512+0x08)) '\x00\x00\x00\x00' # pmPyPartStart 0 (self)
put $((512+0x0c)) '\x00\x00\x00\x64' # pmPartBlkCnt 100
put $((512+0x30)) 'Apple_HFS' # pmPartType
mount -o ro,loop -t hfsplus $img /mnt
---
fs/hfsplus/wrapper.c | 15 +++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 15 insertions(+)
diff --git a/fs/hfsplus/wrapper.c b/fs/hfsplus/wrapper.c
index 30cf4fe78b3d..df8079a4d8f5 100644
--- a/fs/hfsplus/wrapper.c
+++ b/fs/hfsplus/wrapper.c
@@ -137,6 +137,7 @@ int hfsplus_read_wrapper(struct super_block *sb)
struct hfsplus_wd wd;
sector_t part_start, part_size;
u32 blocksize;
+ bool part_hop_done = false, wrapper_hop_done = false;
int error = 0;
error = -EINVAL;
@@ -172,21 +173,35 @@ int hfsplus_read_wrapper(struct super_block *sb)
case cpu_to_be16(HFSPLUS_VOLHEAD_SIG):
break;
case cpu_to_be16(HFSP_WRAP_MAGIC):
+ /*
+ * The embedded volume must be HFS Plus (TN1150), so a
+ * second wrapper is corrupt; a descriptor pointing at
+ * itself would otherwise loop forever.
+ */
+ if (wrapper_hop_done)
+ goto out_free_backup_vhdr;
if (!hfsplus_read_mdb(sbi->s_vhdr, &wd))
goto out_free_backup_vhdr;
wd.ablk_size >>= HFSPLUS_SECTOR_SHIFT;
part_start += (sector_t)wd.ablk_start +
(sector_t)wd.embed_start * wd.ablk_size;
part_size = (sector_t)wd.embed_count * wd.ablk_size;
+ wrapper_hop_done = true;
goto reread;
default:
/*
* Check for a partition block.
*
* (should do this only for cdrom/loop though)
+ *
+ * The partition map is at the start of the device: follow
+ * it at most once, and not from inside a wrapper.
*/
+ if (part_hop_done || wrapper_hop_done)
+ goto out_free_backup_vhdr;
if (hfs_part_find(sb, &part_start, &part_size))
goto out_free_backup_vhdr;
+ part_hop_done = true;
goto reread;
}
--
2.55.0
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