From: syzbot <syzbot+09bec78ee77613a3efdd@syzkaller.appspotmail.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Forwarded: [PATCH] ext4: don't trust on-disk rec_len in dx_move_dirents()
Date: Thu, 01 Oct 2026 13:34:37 -0700 [thread overview]
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Subject: [PATCH] ext4: don't trust on-disk rec_len in dx_move_dirents()
Author: adrianox@gmail.com
#syz test: upstream master
---
fs/ext4/namei.c | 38 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
1 file changed, 30 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/ext4/namei.c b/fs/ext4/namei.c
index a6386c1d237f..83e4564f9f44 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/namei.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/namei.c
@@ -1840,30 +1840,46 @@ struct dentry *ext4_get_parent(struct dentry *child)
/*
* Move count entries from end of map between two memory locations.
- * Returns pointer to last entry moved.
+ * Returns pointer to last entry moved or an ERR_PTR on a corrupt entry.
*/
static struct ext4_dir_entry_2 *
dx_move_dirents(struct inode *dir, char *from, char *to,
struct dx_map_entry *map, int count,
unsigned blocksize)
{
+ char *to_start = to;
unsigned rec_len = 0;
while (count--) {
- struct ext4_dir_entry_2 *de = (struct ext4_dir_entry_2 *)
- (from + (map->offs<<2));
+ unsigned int off = map->offs << 2;
+ struct ext4_dir_entry_2 *de;
+
+ /*
+ * The map is built from on-disk dirents, but a corrupted or
+ * concurrently reused leaf block can still make an entry point
+ * outside the block. Never dereference such an entry.
+ */
+ if (off > blocksize - sizeof(struct ext4_dir_entry_2))
+ return ERR_PTR(-EFSCORRUPTED);
+ de = (struct ext4_dir_entry_2 *)(from + off);
rec_len = ext4_dir_rec_len(de->name_len, dir);
+ if (off + rec_len > blocksize ||
+ to + rec_len > to_start + blocksize)
+ return ERR_PTR(-EFSCORRUPTED);
memcpy (to, de, rec_len);
((struct ext4_dir_entry_2 *) to)->rec_len =
ext4_rec_len_to_disk(rec_len, blocksize);
- /* wipe dir_entry excluding the rec_len field */
+ /*
+ * Wipe dir_entry excluding the rec_len field. Use the entry's
+ * own (minimal) length instead of the untrusted on-disk rec_len,
+ * which on a corrupt block decodes to an arbitrary huge value
+ * and turns this into an out-of-bounds memset().
+ */
de->inode = 0;
- memset(&de->name_len, 0, ext4_rec_len_from_disk(de->rec_len,
- blocksize) -
- offsetof(struct ext4_dir_entry_2,
- name_len));
+ memset(&de->name_len, 0, rec_len -
+ offsetof(struct ext4_dir_entry_2, name_len));
map++;
to += rec_len;
@@ -1992,6 +2008,12 @@ static struct ext4_dir_entry_2 *do_split(handle_t *handle, struct inode *dir,
/* Fancy dance to stay within two buffers */
de2 = dx_move_dirents(dir, data1, data2, map + split, count - split,
blocksize);
+ if (IS_ERR(de2)) {
+ ext4_error_inode_block(dir, (*bh)->b_blocknr, 0,
+ "bad indexed directory entry");
+ err = PTR_ERR(de2);
+ goto out;
+ }
de = dx_pack_dirents(dir, data1, blocksize);
de->rec_len = ext4_rec_len_to_disk(data1 + (blocksize - csum_size) -
(char *) de,
--
2.51.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-10-01 20:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-09-28 21:54 [syzbot] [ext4?] KASAN: slab-use-after-free Write in do_split syzbot
2026-09-29 0:32 ` syzbot
2026-09-29 1:00 ` Qu Wenruo
2026-10-01 19:48 ` Forwarded: [PATCH] ext4: validate dirents before splitting a directory syzbot
2026-10-01 20:34 ` syzbot [this message]
2026-10-01 21:30 ` Forwarded: [PATCH] ext4: don't trust on-disk rec_len in dx_move_dirents() syzbot
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