* [PATCH] ntfs: fix u16 truncation of the update sequence array count check
@ 2026-10-20 13:44 Zhan Xusheng
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From: Zhan Xusheng @ 2026-10-20 13:44 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Namjae Jeon, Hyunchul Lee; +Cc: Bryam Vargas, ntfs, linux-kernel, Zhan Xusheng
From: Zhan Xusheng <zhanxusheng@xiaomi.com>
ntfs_check_restart_page_header() bounds the on-disk system page size by
recomputing the update sequence array count from it:
u16 ra_ofs, usa_count, usa_ofs, usa_end = 0;
...
usa_count = 1 + (logfile_system_page_size >> NTFS_BLOCK_SIZE_BITS);
if (usa_count != le16_to_cpu(rp->usa_count))
return false;
The right hand side is computed in u32 but stored in a u16, so the count
wraps once the system page size reaches 0x2000000. An image claiming any
larger power of two passes the check by also claiming usa_count == 1.
Nothing else limits the value, so ntfs_check_and_load_restart_page() goes
on to kvzalloc() up to 2 GiB for the restart page and copy that many bytes
a page at a time. The size is only rejected afterwards, by the
(size >> NTFS_BLOCK_SIZE_BITS) != usa_count test in post_read_mst_fixup().
Compute the count in a u32 so the existing check rejects an over-large
system page size instead of being defeated by the truncation. This adds
no new limit: the array holds one u16 per protected sector plus the update
sequence number and must end within the first sector, which caps usa_count
at 240 and the system page size at 64 KiB.
Widen ra_ofs and usa_ofs as well, as ntfs_check_restart_area() already
does: both are loaded from __le16 on-disk fields and every comparison is
against a non-negative value, so no result changes.
Fixes: 1e9ea7e04472 ("Revert "fs: Remove NTFS classic"")
Signed-off-by: Zhan Xusheng <zhanxusheng@xiaomi.com>
---
fs/ntfs/logfile.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/fs/ntfs/logfile.c b/fs/ntfs/logfile.c
index ce38ce87f8fc8..2f27ae7a3927f 100644
--- a/fs/ntfs/logfile.c
+++ b/fs/ntfs/logfile.c
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ static bool ntfs_check_restart_page_header(struct inode *vi,
struct restart_page_header *rp, s64 pos)
{
u32 logfile_system_page_size, logfile_log_page_size;
- u16 ra_ofs, usa_count, usa_ofs, usa_end = 0;
+ u32 ra_ofs, usa_count, usa_ofs, usa_end = 0;
bool have_usa = true;
ntfs_debug("Entering.");
base-commit: 19dc08f1f2c5563ba4da6afd5ecace8eba163aef
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2.43.0
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