From: Tristan Madani <tristmd@gmail.com>
To: Viacheslav Dubeyko <slava@dubeyko.com>,
John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>,
Yangtao Li <frank.li@vivo.com>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
stable@vger.kernel.org,
Tristan Madani <tristan@talencesecurity.com>,
syzbot+217eb327242d08197efb@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Subject: [PATCH 2/3] hfs/hfsplus: initialize data buffer in hfs_bnode_read_u16 and hfs_bnode_read_u8
Date: Fri, 1 May 2026 11:02:16 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260501110218.29906-2-tristmd@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260501110218.29906-1-tristmd@gmail.com>
From: Tristan Madani <tristan@talencesecurity.com>
hfs_bnode_read_u16() and hfs_bnode_read_u8() declare local data buffers
without initialization, then pass them to hfs_bnode_read(). If
is_bnode_offset_valid() fails inside hfs_bnode_read(), the function
returns early without writing to the buffer, leaving it uninitialized.
The caller then returns the garbage value to its caller.
This triggers KMSAN uninit-value reports when a corrupted HFS+ image
has a node_size of 1, causing rec_off to underflow in hfs_bnode_find()
and the subsequent hfs_bnode_read_u16() to operate on an invalid offset.
Zero-initialize both buffers so that callers get a deterministic zero
value when the underlying read fails.
Reported-by: syzbot+217eb327242d08197efb@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=217eb327242d08197efb
Tested-by: syzbot+217eb327242d08197efb@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Fixes: a431930c9bac ("hfs: fix slab-out-of-bounds in hfs_bnode_read()")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Tristan Madani <tristan@talencesecurity.com>
---
fs/hfs/bnode.c | 4 ++--
fs/hfsplus/bnode.c | 4 ++--
2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/hfs/bnode.c b/fs/hfs/bnode.c
index c00645a4a5733..08307faea7a68 100644
--- a/fs/hfs/bnode.c
+++ b/fs/hfs/bnode.c
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ void hfs_bnode_read(struct hfs_bnode *node, void *buf, u32 off, u32 len)
u16 hfs_bnode_read_u16(struct hfs_bnode *node, u32 off)
{
- __be16 data;
+ __be16 data = 0;
// optimize later...
hfs_bnode_read(node, &data, off, 2);
return be16_to_cpu(data);
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ u16 hfs_bnode_read_u16(struct hfs_bnode *node, u32 off)
u8 hfs_bnode_read_u8(struct hfs_bnode *node, u32 off)
{
- u8 data;
+ u8 data = 0;
// optimize later...
hfs_bnode_read(node, &data, off, 1);
return data;
diff --git a/fs/hfsplus/bnode.c b/fs/hfsplus/bnode.c
index f8b5a8ae58ff5..35790085b5b2e 100644
--- a/fs/hfsplus/bnode.c
+++ b/fs/hfsplus/bnode.c
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ void hfs_bnode_read(struct hfs_bnode *node, void *buf, u32 off, u32 len)
u16 hfs_bnode_read_u16(struct hfs_bnode *node, u32 off)
{
- __be16 data;
+ __be16 data = 0;
/* TODO: optimize later... */
hfs_bnode_read(node, &data, off, 2);
return be16_to_cpu(data);
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ u16 hfs_bnode_read_u16(struct hfs_bnode *node, u32 off)
u8 hfs_bnode_read_u8(struct hfs_bnode *node, u32 off)
{
- u8 data;
+ u8 data = 0;
/* TODO: optimize later... */
hfs_bnode_read(node, &data, off, 1);
return data;
--
2.47.3
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-05-01 11:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-05-01 11:02 [PATCH 1/3] hfs/hfsplus: fix u32 overflow in check_and_correct_requested_length Tristan Madani
2026-05-01 11:02 ` Tristan Madani [this message]
2026-05-04 23:29 ` [PATCH 2/3] hfs/hfsplus: initialize data buffer in hfs_bnode_read_u16 and hfs_bnode_read_u8 Viacheslav Dubeyko
2026-05-01 11:02 ` [PATCH 3/3] hfsplus: fix null pointer dereference in hfsplus_create_attributes_file Tristan Madani
2026-05-04 23:31 ` Viacheslav Dubeyko
2026-05-04 23:27 ` [PATCH 1/3] hfs/hfsplus: fix u32 overflow in check_and_correct_requested_length Viacheslav Dubeyko
2026-05-05 11:12 ` [PATCH v2 0/2] hfs/hfsplus: fix OOB access and uninit-value in bnode operations Tristan Madani
2026-05-05 11:12 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] hfs/hfsplus: fix u32 overflow in check_and_correct_requested_length Tristan Madani
2026-05-07 22:02 ` Viacheslav Dubeyko
2026-05-05 11:12 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] hfs/hfsplus: zero-initialize buffer in hfs_bnode_read Tristan Madani
2026-05-06 19:23 ` Viacheslav Dubeyko
2026-05-07 16:37 ` Tristan Madani
2026-05-07 21:59 ` Viacheslav Dubeyko
2026-05-07 22:00 ` Viacheslav Dubeyko
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