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 14:30:32 -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
syzbot reported an out-of-bounds write from do_split() while a directory
is converted to an indexed one:
BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in dx_move_dirents [inline]
BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in do_split+0xf9c/0x1de0
Write of size 90458
dx_move_dirents() wipes the source entry using its on-disk rec_len.
That field can't be trusted: on a corrupt block it may be garbage
(0x6161 here) and ext4_rec_len_from_disk() turns it into a huge value,
so the memset() runs far past the block. The entry is already copied
using its own real length, so use that length for the wipe as well.
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=09bec78ee77613a3efdd
---
fs/ext4/namei.c | 6 ++----
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/ext4/namei.c b/fs/ext4/namei.c
index a6386c1d237f..71e9e7c9a7fd 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/namei.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/namei.c
@@ -1860,10 +1860,8 @@ dx_move_dirents(struct inode *dir, char *from, char *to,
/* wipe dir_entry excluding the rec_len field */
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;
--
2.51.0
prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-10-01 21:30 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 ` Forwarded: [PATCH] ext4: don't trust on-disk rec_len in dx_move_dirents() syzbot
2026-10-01 21:30 ` syzbot [this message]
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