From: Junyoung Jang <graypanda.inzag@gmail.com>
To: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>, Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Junyoung Jang <graypanda.inzag@gmail.com>,
Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>,
Matt Bobrowski <matt@bobrowski.net>,
Gwanhyun Lee <gwanhyunlee@gmail.com>,
fuse-devel@lists.linux.dev, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 1/3] fuse: reject embedded NULs in readdir entry names
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2026 06:09:48 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261115210952.2140036-2-graypanda.inzag@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261115210952.2140036-1-graypanda.inzag@gmail.com>
parse_dirfile() and parse_dirplusfile() reject '/' in dirent->name, but
do not check for embedded NUL bytes.
Unlike plain getdents() buffers covered by verify_dirent_name() in
fs/readdir.c, FUSE READDIRPLUS passes dirent->namelen directly to
QSTR_INIT() in fuse_direntplus_link() and instantiates or aliases live
dentries via d_splice_alias(). A dirent name containing an embedded NUL
produces a dentry whose d_name.len extends past the NUL terminator,
which allows callers such as inotify to copy uninitialized kernel slab
memory past the NUL byte to userspace.
Reject dirent names containing NUL alongside '/' in the FUSE readdir
parsers.
Fixes: 0b05b18381ee ("fuse: implement NFS-like readdirplus support")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Co-developed-by: Gwanhyun Lee <gwanhyunlee@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Gwanhyun Lee <gwanhyunlee@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junyoung Jang <graypanda.inzag@gmail.com>
---
fs/fuse/readdir.c | 12 +++++++++---
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/fuse/readdir.c b/fs/fuse/readdir.c
index 1f6cf565477f..e8b47c2a9103 100644
--- a/fs/fuse/readdir.c
+++ b/fs/fuse/readdir.c
@@ -126,6 +126,12 @@ static bool fuse_emit(struct file *file, struct dir_context *ctx,
dirent->type | FILLDIR_FLAG_NOINTR);
}
+static bool fuse_invalid_dirent_name(const struct fuse_dirent *dirent)
+{
+ return memchr(dirent->name, '/', dirent->namelen) ||
+ memchr(dirent->name, '\0', dirent->namelen);
+}
+
static int parse_dirfile(char *buf, size_t nbytes, struct file *file,
struct dir_context *ctx)
{
@@ -136,7 +142,7 @@ static int parse_dirfile(char *buf, size_t nbytes, struct file *file,
return -EIO;
if (reclen > nbytes)
break;
- if (memchr(dirent->name, '/', dirent->namelen) != NULL)
+ if (fuse_invalid_dirent_name(dirent))
return -EIO;
if (!fuse_emit(file, ctx, dirent))
@@ -307,7 +313,7 @@ static int parse_dirplusfile(char *buf, size_t nbytes, struct file *file,
return -EIO;
if (reclen > nbytes)
break;
- if (memchr(dirent->name, '/', dirent->namelen) != NULL)
+ if (fuse_invalid_dirent_name(dirent))
return -EIO;
if (!over) {
@@ -461,7 +467,7 @@ static enum fuse_parse_result fuse_parse_cache(struct fuse_file *ff,
return FOUND_ERR;
if (WARN_ON(reclen > nbytes))
return FOUND_ERR;
- if (WARN_ON(memchr(dirent->name, '/', dirent->namelen) != NULL))
+ if (WARN_ON(fuse_invalid_dirent_name(dirent)))
return FOUND_ERR;
if (ff->readdir.pos == ctx->pos) {
--
2.43.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-11-15 21:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-11-15 21:09 [PATCH 0/3] fuse, fsnotify: handle embedded NUL names safely Junyoung Jang
2026-11-15 21:09 ` Junyoung Jang [this message]
2026-11-15 21:09 ` [PATCH 2/3] inotify: zero-pad event names after an embedded NUL Junyoung Jang
2026-11-15 21:09 ` [PATCH 3/3] fanotify: zero-pad copied " Junyoung Jang
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