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From: DaeMyung Kang <charsyam@gmail.com>
To: Namjae Jeon <linkinjeon@kernel.org>, Hyunchul Lee <hyc.lee@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	DaeMyung Kang <charsyam@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] ntfs: fix NULL dereference in ntfs_index_walk_down()
Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2026 03:42:42 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260425184243.116396-2-charsyam@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260425184243.116396-1-charsyam@gmail.com>

ntfs_index_walk_down() allocates ictx->ib when descending from the root
into an index allocation block. If that allocation fails, the old code
still passes the NULL buffer to ntfs_ib_read(), which can write through
it via ntfs_inode_attr_pread().

Allocate the index block into a temporary pointer and return -ENOMEM
before changing the index context on allocation failure. Also propagate
ERR_PTR() through ntfs_index_next() and ntfs_readdir() so walk-down
allocation or index block read failures are not mistaken for normal
index iteration inside the filesystem.

ntfs_readdir() keeps the existing userspace-visible behavior of
suppressing readdir errors after marking end_in_iterate; this change only
prevents the walk-down failure path from dereferencing NULL internally.

The failure was reproduced with failslab fail-nth injection on getdents64;
the original module hits a NULL pointer dereference in memcpy_orig through
ntfs_ib_read(), while the patched module reaches the same
ntfs_index_walk_down() allocation failure without crashing.

Fixes: 0a8ac0c1fa0b ("ntfs: update directory operations")
Signed-off-by: DaeMyung Kang <charsyam@gmail.com>
---
 fs/ntfs/dir.c   | 13 ++++++++++---
 fs/ntfs/index.c | 17 +++++++++++++----
 2 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/ntfs/dir.c b/fs/ntfs/dir.c
index bfa904d2ce66..20f5c7074bdd 100644
--- a/fs/ntfs/dir.c
+++ b/fs/ntfs/dir.c
@@ -911,8 +911,8 @@ static int ntfs_readdir(struct file *file, struct dir_context *actor)
 
 	if (next->flags & INDEX_ENTRY_NODE) {
 		next = ntfs_index_walk_down(next, ictx);
-		if (!next) {
-			err = -EIO;
+		if (IS_ERR(next)) {
+			err = PTR_ERR(next);
 			goto out;
 		}
 	}
@@ -920,7 +920,14 @@ static int ntfs_readdir(struct file *file, struct dir_context *actor)
 	if (next && !(next->flags & INDEX_ENTRY_END))
 		goto nextdir;
 
-	while ((next = ntfs_index_next(next, ictx)) != NULL) {
+	while (1) {
+		next = ntfs_index_next(next, ictx);
+		if (IS_ERR(next)) {
+			err = PTR_ERR(next);
+			goto out;
+		}
+		if (!next)
+			break;
 nextdir:
 		/* Check the consistency of an index entry */
 		if (ntfs_index_entry_inconsistent(ictx, vol, next, COLLATION_FILE_NAME,
diff --git a/fs/ntfs/index.c b/fs/ntfs/index.c
index 2080f3969137..f50082708bd1 100644
--- a/fs/ntfs/index.c
+++ b/fs/ntfs/index.c
@@ -1969,15 +1969,19 @@ int ntfs_index_remove(struct ntfs_inode *dir_ni, const void *key, const u32 keyl
 struct index_entry *ntfs_index_walk_down(struct index_entry *ie, struct ntfs_index_context *ictx)
 {
 	struct index_entry *entry;
+	struct index_block *ib;
 	s64 vcn;
 
 	entry = ie;
 	do {
 		vcn = ntfs_ie_get_vcn(entry);
 		if (ictx->is_in_root) {
+			ib = kvzalloc(ictx->block_size, GFP_NOFS);
+			if (!ib)
+				return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
 			/* down from level zero */
 			ictx->ir = NULL;
-			ictx->ib = kvzalloc(ictx->block_size, GFP_NOFS);
+			ictx->ib = ib;
 			ictx->pindex = 1;
 			ictx->is_in_root = false;
 		} else {
@@ -1991,8 +1995,8 @@ struct index_entry *ntfs_index_walk_down(struct index_entry *ie, struct ntfs_ind
 			ictx->entry = ntfs_ie_get_first(&ictx->ib->index);
 			entry = ictx->entry;
 		} else
-			entry = NULL;
-	} while (entry && (entry->flags & INDEX_ENTRY_NODE));
+			entry = ERR_PTR(-EIO);
+	} while (!IS_ERR_OR_NULL(entry) && (entry->flags & INDEX_ENTRY_NODE));
 
 	return entry;
 }
@@ -2097,10 +2101,15 @@ struct index_entry *ntfs_index_next(struct index_entry *ie, struct ntfs_index_co
 
 		/* walk down if it has a subnode */
 		if (flags & INDEX_ENTRY_NODE) {
-			if (!ictx->ia_ni)
+			if (!ictx->ia_ni) {
 				ictx->ia_ni = ntfs_ia_open(ictx, ictx->idx_ni);
+				if (!ictx->ia_ni)
+					return ERR_PTR(-EIO);
+			}
 
 			next = ntfs_index_walk_down(next, ictx);
+			if (IS_ERR(next))
+				return next;
 		} else {
 
 			/* walk up it has no subnode, nor data */
-- 
2.43.0


  reply	other threads:[~2026-04-25 18:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-04-25 18:42 [PATCH 0/2] ntfs: fix index walk NULL deref and WSL symlink leak DaeMyung Kang
2026-04-25 18:42 ` DaeMyung Kang [this message]
2026-04-26  1:01   ` [PATCH 1/2] ntfs: fix NULL dereference in ntfs_index_walk_down() Namjae Jeon
2026-04-26  3:47   ` DaeMyung Kang
2026-04-25 18:42 ` [PATCH 2/2] ntfs: fix WSL symlink target leak on reparse failure DaeMyung Kang

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