From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: mm-commits@vger.kernel.org,zhanxusheng@xiaomi.com,piaojun@huawei.com,mark@fasheh.com,junxiao.bi@oracle.com,joseph.qi@linux.alibaba.com,jlbec@evilplan.org,heming.zhao@suse.com,gechangwei@live.cn,zhanxusheng1024@gmail.com,akpm@linux-foundation.org
Subject: + ocfs2-bound-check-dir-entries-in-the-readdir-re-validation-scan.patch added to mm-nonmm-unstable branch
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2026 19:10:56 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260812021057.4D7311F000E9@smtp.kernel.org> (raw)
The patch titled
Subject: ocfs2: bound-check dir entries in the readdir re-validation scan
has been added to the -mm mm-nonmm-unstable branch. Its filename is
ocfs2-bound-check-dir-entries-in-the-readdir-re-validation-scan.patch
This patch will shortly appear at
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/ocfs2-bound-check-dir-entries-in-the-readdir-re-validation-scan.patch
This patch will later appear in the mm-nonmm-unstable branch at
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
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From: Zhan Xusheng <zhanxusheng1024@gmail.com>
Subject: ocfs2: bound-check dir entries in the readdir re-validation scan
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2026 10:43:36 +0800
Patch series "ocfs2: bound-check both readdir re-validation scans", v2.
This patch (of 2):
When the inode version changed since the last readdir(),
ocfs2_dir_foreach_blk_el() re-scans the directory block from its start to
relocate the current position:
for (i = 0; i < sb->s_blocksize && i < offset; ) {
de = (struct ocfs2_dir_entry *)(bh->b_data + i);
if (le16_to_cpu(de->rec_len) < OCFS2_DIR_REC_LEN(1))
break;
i += le16_to_cpu(de->rec_len);
}
i walks the block on rec_len values taken from the block itself and the
only thing tested is that rec_len is not too small, so a single bogus
rec_len leaves i anywhere in the block, including its last
OCFS2_DIR_REC_LEN(1) - 1 bytes. @offset comes from ctx->pos, which
userspace moves with lseek() on the directory fd, and decides how far the
walk gets.
Two bounds are missing, both of which ocfs2_check_dir_entry() applies for
the emit loop below.
de->rec_len sits at byte offset 8 within the entry, so dereferencing de in
that tail reads past the s_blocksize buffer. ocfs2_check_dir_entry()
declines to look at an entry that close to the end:
size - buf_offset < OCFS2_DIR_REC_LEN(1)
Nothing bounds i += rec_len either, so i can end up past the block. The
emit loop that follows is guarded by offset < sb->s_blocksize and does not
run, but
offset = i;
ctx->pos = (ctx->pos & ~((loff_t)sb->s_blocksize - 1)) | offset;
runs first and ORs a value with bits above the block mask into ctx->pos,
corrupting the block number readdir() resumes from.
ocfs2_check_dir_entry() rejects that as "directory entry overrun":
next_offset = buf_offset + rlen;
... next_offset > size
Apply both bounds. For a consistent directory this changes nothing:
entries are at least OCFS2_DIR_REC_LEN(1) bytes and do not cross the end
of the block, so no valid entry is skipped.
Found by the sashiko review tool; fix approach suggested by Joseph Qi.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260811024337.3972976-1-zhanxusheng@xiaomi.com
Link: https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260806022044.167962-1-zhanxusheng@xiaomi.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260811024337.3972976-2-zhanxusheng@xiaomi.com
Signed-off-by: Zhan Xusheng <zhanxusheng@xiaomi.com>
Suggested-by: Joseph Qi <joseph.qi@linux.alibaba.com>
Reviewed-by: Joseph Qi <joseph.qi@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mark@fasheh.com>
Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>
Cc: Junxiao Bi <junxiao.bi@oracle.com>
Cc: Changwei Ge <gechangwei@live.cn>
Cc: Jun Piao <piaojun@huawei.com>
Cc: Heming Zhao <heming.zhao@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---
fs/ocfs2/dir.c | 12 ++++++++----
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
--- a/fs/ocfs2/dir.c~ocfs2-bound-check-dir-entries-in-the-readdir-re-validation-scan
+++ a/fs/ocfs2/dir.c
@@ -1945,7 +1945,10 @@ static int ocfs2_dir_foreach_blk_el(stru
* dirent right now. Scan from the start of the block
* to make sure. */
if (!inode_eq_iversion(inode, *f_version)) {
- for (i = 0; i < sb->s_blocksize && i < offset; ) {
+ for (i = 0; i + OCFS2_DIR_REC_LEN(1) <= sb->s_blocksize &&
+ i < offset;) {
+ unsigned int rec_len;
+
de = (struct ocfs2_dir_entry *) (bh->b_data + i);
/* It's too expensive to do a full
* dirent test each time round this
@@ -1953,10 +1956,11 @@ static int ocfs2_dir_foreach_blk_el(stru
* least that it is non-zero. A
* failure will be detected in the
* dirent test below. */
- if (le16_to_cpu(de->rec_len) <
- OCFS2_DIR_REC_LEN(1))
+ rec_len = le16_to_cpu(de->rec_len);
+ if (rec_len < OCFS2_DIR_REC_LEN(1) ||
+ i + rec_len > sb->s_blocksize)
break;
- i += le16_to_cpu(de->rec_len);
+ i += rec_len;
}
offset = i;
ctx->pos = (ctx->pos & ~((loff_t)sb->s_blocksize - 1))
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from zhanxusheng1024@gmail.com are
maple_tree-remove-unused-mas_is_root_limits.patch
ocfs2-fix-readdir-position-truncation-on-32-bit-kernels.patch
ocfs2-bound-check-dir-entries-in-the-readdir-re-validation-scan.patch
ocfs2-bound-check-dir-entries-in-the-inline-data-re-validation-scan.patch
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