From: <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: djwong@kernel.org,cem@kernel.org,hch@lst.de
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: FAILED: patch "[PATCH] xfs: fix out of bounds memory read error in symlink repair" failed to apply to 6.12-stable tree
Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2025 14:26:03 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2025112403-evaluate-bogged-d093@gregkh> (raw)
The patch below does not apply to the 6.12-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
id to <stable@vger.kernel.org>.
To reproduce the conflict and resubmit, you may use the following commands:
git fetch https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/ linux-6.12.y
git checkout FETCH_HEAD
git cherry-pick -x 678e1cc2f482e0985a0613ab4a5bf89c497e5acc
# <resolve conflicts, build, test, etc.>
git commit -s
git send-email --to '<stable@vger.kernel.org>' --in-reply-to '2025112403-evaluate-bogged-d093@gregkh' --subject-prefix 'PATCH 6.12.y' HEAD^..
Possible dependencies:
thanks,
greg k-h
------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------
From 678e1cc2f482e0985a0613ab4a5bf89c497e5acc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@kernel.org>
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2025 08:35:18 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] xfs: fix out of bounds memory read error in symlink repair
xfs/286 produced this report on my test fleet:
==================================================================
BUG: KFENCE: out-of-bounds read in memcpy_orig+0x54/0x110
Out-of-bounds read at 0xffff88843fe9e038 (184B right of kfence-#184):
memcpy_orig+0x54/0x110
xrep_symlink_salvage_inline+0xb3/0xf0 [xfs]
xrep_symlink_salvage+0x100/0x110 [xfs]
xrep_symlink+0x2e/0x80 [xfs]
xrep_attempt+0x61/0x1f0 [xfs]
xfs_scrub_metadata+0x34f/0x5c0 [xfs]
xfs_ioc_scrubv_metadata+0x387/0x560 [xfs]
xfs_file_ioctl+0xe23/0x10e0 [xfs]
__x64_sys_ioctl+0x76/0xc0
do_syscall_64+0x4e/0x1e0
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x4b/0x53
kfence-#184: 0xffff88843fe9df80-0xffff88843fe9dfea, size=107, cache=kmalloc-128
allocated by task 3470 on cpu 1 at 263329.131592s (192823.508886s ago):
xfs_init_local_fork+0x79/0xe0 [xfs]
xfs_iformat_local+0xa4/0x170 [xfs]
xfs_iformat_data_fork+0x148/0x180 [xfs]
xfs_inode_from_disk+0x2cd/0x480 [xfs]
xfs_iget+0x450/0xd60 [xfs]
xfs_bulkstat_one_int+0x6b/0x510 [xfs]
xfs_bulkstat_iwalk+0x1e/0x30 [xfs]
xfs_iwalk_ag_recs+0xdf/0x150 [xfs]
xfs_iwalk_run_callbacks+0xb9/0x190 [xfs]
xfs_iwalk_ag+0x1dc/0x2f0 [xfs]
xfs_iwalk_args.constprop.0+0x6a/0x120 [xfs]
xfs_iwalk+0xa4/0xd0 [xfs]
xfs_bulkstat+0xfa/0x170 [xfs]
xfs_ioc_fsbulkstat.isra.0+0x13a/0x230 [xfs]
xfs_file_ioctl+0xbf2/0x10e0 [xfs]
__x64_sys_ioctl+0x76/0xc0
do_syscall_64+0x4e/0x1e0
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x4b/0x53
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 1300113 Comm: xfs_scrub Not tainted 6.18.0-rc4-djwx #rc4 PREEMPT(lazy) 3d744dd94e92690f00a04398d2bd8631dcef1954
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.16.0-4.module+el8.8.0+21164+ed375313 04/01/2014
==================================================================
On further analysis, I realized that the second parameter to min() is
not correct. xfs_ifork::if_bytes is the size of the xfs_ifork::if_data
buffer. if_bytes can be smaller than the data fork size because:
(a) the forkoff code tries to keep the data area as large as possible
(b) for symbolic links, if_bytes is the ondisk file size + 1
(c) forkoff is always a multiple of 8.
Case in point: for a single-byte symlink target, forkoff will be
8 but the buffer will only be 2 bytes long.
In other words, the logic here is wrong and we walk off the end of the
incore buffer. Fix that.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v6.10
Fixes: 2651923d8d8db0 ("xfs: online repair of symbolic links")
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Carlos Maiolino <cem@kernel.org>
diff --git a/fs/xfs/scrub/symlink_repair.c b/fs/xfs/scrub/symlink_repair.c
index 5902398185a8..df629892462f 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/scrub/symlink_repair.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/scrub/symlink_repair.c
@@ -184,7 +184,7 @@ xrep_symlink_salvage_inline(
sc->ip->i_disk_size == 1 && old_target[0] == '?')
return 0;
- nr = min(XFS_SYMLINK_MAXLEN, xfs_inode_data_fork_size(ip));
+ nr = min(XFS_SYMLINK_MAXLEN, ifp->if_bytes);
memcpy(target_buf, ifp->if_data, nr);
return nr;
}
next reply other threads:[~2025-11-24 13:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-11-24 13:26 gregkh [this message]
2025-11-24 17:56 ` [PATCH 6.12.y 1/2] xfs: Replace strncpy with memcpy Sasha Levin
2025-11-24 17:56 ` [PATCH 6.12.y 2/2] xfs: fix out of bounds memory read error in symlink repair Sasha Levin
2025-11-26 22:40 ` [PATCH 6.12.y 1/2] xfs: Replace strncpy with memcpy Darrick J. Wong
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