From: Jay Vadayath <jay@artiphishell.com>
To: Alasdair Kergon <agk@redhat.com>,
Mike Snitzer <snitzer@kernel.org>,
Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>,
Benjamin Marzinski <bmarzins@redhat.com>
Cc: dm-devel@lists.linux.dev, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Jay Vadayath <jay@artiphishell.com>
Subject: [PATCH] dm-raid: bound array_position before indexing failed_devices
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2026 11:19:34 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261022181934.35685-1-jay@artiphishell.com> (raw)
super_init_validation() reads role = le32_to_cpu(sb2->array_position)
out of an on-disk dm_raid_superblock and then uses it as a bit index into
the failed_devices bitmap via test_bit(role, (void *)failed_devices).
failed_devices is a uint64_t[DISKS_ARRAY_ELEMS] (DISKS_ARRAY_ELEMS == 4,
i.e. 256 bits) living on the stack. The only guard is role < 0, so any
on-disk array_position >= 256 makes test_bit() read past the end of the
stack array (array_position == 256 reads failed_devices[4], 8 bytes past
the object). For a raid1 set the role != raid_disk reorder branch falls
through to the same test_bit().
A crafted dm-raid superblock therefore causes a stack out-of-bounds read
during table load. Reachable by anyone able to issue a dmsetup create
with attacker-controlled metadata (CAP_SYS_ADMIN in the target
namespace); the crash fires in the constructor / analyse_superblocks
path, before any md_run or array sizing.
BUG: KASAN: stack-out-of-bounds in super_validate+0x1cd0/0x3390
Read of size 8 at addr ffff888007b17828 by task poc/152
Call Trace:
dump_stack_lvl+0x64/0x80
print_report+0xd0/0x630
kasan_report+0xe5/0x120
kasan_check_range+0x105/0x1b0
super_validate+0x1cd0/0x3390 (super_init_validation, inlined)
raid_ctr+0x2c4b/0xa0f0
dm_table_add_target+0x66f/0xf80
table_load+0x2ee/0x780
ctl_ioctl+0x362/0x9f0
dm_ctl_ioctl+0x9/0x10
__x64_sys_ioctl+0x134/0x1c0
do_syscall_64+0xe2/0x4b0
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
role is a device position that must refer to an actual member of the
array, so reject anything outside [0, rs->raid_disks) instead of only the
negative case. rs->raid_disks is always <= the 256-bit capacity of
failed_devices, so this both closes the out-of-bounds access and matches
the intended semantics.
This bug was discovered by Artiphishell's vTriage pipeline, which
generated a crafted raid1 superblock (magic "DmRd", compat_features=1,
num_devices=2, array_position=256, level=1) and a dmsetup-create
reproducer that reliably triggers the KASAN report on an unpatched kernel
(the precursor DMINFO "raid device #256 now at position #0" is visible in
the serial log just before the splat). The fix below was drafted with the
Claude coding assistant; a userspace reproducer is available on request.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8
Signed-off-by: Jay Vadayath <jay@artiphishell.com>
---
drivers/md/dm-raid.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-raid.c b/drivers/md/dm-raid.c
index 8f5a5e1342a9..d497d7c68596 100644
--- a/drivers/md/dm-raid.c
+++ b/drivers/md/dm-raid.c
@@ -2420,7 +2420,8 @@ static int super_init_validation(struct raid_set *rs, struct md_rdev *rdev)
*/
if (!test_bit(FirstUse, &r->flags) && (r->raid_disk >= 0)) {
role = le32_to_cpu(sb2->array_position);
- if (role < 0)
+ /* Bound @role before it indexes the failed_devices stack bitmap. */
+ if (role < 0 || role >= rs->raid_disks)
continue;
if (role != r->raid_disk) {
--
2.51.2
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