From: sashiko-bot@kernel.org
To: "Eric Biggers" <ebiggers@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, tytso@mit.edu
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fsverity: Be more careful with return value of ->get_verity_descriptor()
Date: Sun, 25 Oct 2026 20:44:43 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <sashiko-outbox-184439@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261025203831.120095-1-ebiggers@kernel.org>
> If fsverity_operations::get_verity_descriptor() returns that the verity
> descriptor has 0 size, then a zero-size buffer is allocated to hold it,
> and it's called again with bufsize=0.
>
> But bufsize=0 is a special case that says to return the actual size. If
> in the meantime the filesystem has decided that the size is some
> actually valid size, it will return that size, and then
> validate_fsverity_descriptor() will read from ZERO_SIZE_PTR and crash.
>
> Of course, for the filesystem to misbehave in that strange way, it
> generally would require direct writes to the block device.
>
> Regardless, fsverity_get_descriptor() might as well guard against it.
> Make it do so. Specifically, validate that the first call to
> ->get_verity_descriptor() returns at least the minimum descriptor size,
> and validate that the second call returns the same size as the first.
>
> Fixes: fd2d1acfcadf ("fs-verity: add the hook for file ->open()")
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
Sashiko has reviewed this patch and found no issues.
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2026-10-25 20:38 [PATCH] fsverity: Be more careful with return value of ->get_verity_descriptor() Eric Biggers
2026-10-25 20:38 ` [f2fs-dev] " Eric Biggers via Linux-f2fs-devel
2026-10-25 20:44 ` sashiko-bot [this message]
2026-10-28 18:06 ` Eric Biggers
2026-10-28 18:06 ` [f2fs-dev] " Eric Biggers via Linux-f2fs-devel
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