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From: Vasiliy Kovalev <kovalev@altlinux.org>
To: Jan Kara <jack@suse.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>,
	linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, lvc-project@linuxtesting.org,
	kovalev@altlinux.org
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] ext2: guard against zero i_nlink on new_inode in ext2_rename()
Date: Thu,  2 Apr 2026 01:08:37 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260401220837.2424925-3-kovalev@altlinux.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260401220837.2424925-1-kovalev@altlinux.org>

A crafted ext2 image can provide a target inode with i_links_count == 0
on disk. When rename() resolves to an existing target, ext2_rename()
calls drop_nlink(new_inode) for the directory case and
inode_dec_link_count(new_inode) unconditionally. Both reach
drop_nlink(), which triggers WARN_ON:

WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 646 at fs/inode.c:336 drop_nlink+0xad/0xd0 fs/inode.c:336
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 646 Comm: syz.0.17 Not tainted 6.12.77+ #1
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 inode_dec_link_count include/linux/fs.h:2518 [inline]
 ext2_rename+0x35e/0x850 fs/ext2/namei.c:374
 vfs_rename+0xf2f/0x2060 fs/namei.c:5021
 do_renameat2+0xbe2/0xd50 fs/namei.c:5178
 __do_sys_rename fs/namei.c:5225 [inline]
 __se_sys_rename fs/namei.c:5223 [inline]
 __x64_sys_rename+0x7e/0xa0 fs/namei.c:5223
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:47 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0xf5/0x220 arch/x86/entry/common.c:78
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
 </TASK>

No disk state has been modified at this point in the function, so
return -EFSCORRUPTED after reporting the corruption via ext2_error().

Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with Syzkaller.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 9a53c3a783c2 ("[PATCH] r/o bind mounts: unlink: monitor i_nlink")
Signed-off-by: Vasiliy Kovalev <kovalev@altlinux.org>
---
 fs/ext2/namei.c | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/fs/ext2/namei.c b/fs/ext2/namei.c
index ea49e8f2b292..419e844f2e54 100644
--- a/fs/ext2/namei.c
+++ b/fs/ext2/namei.c
@@ -334,6 +334,13 @@ static int ext2_rename (struct mnt_idmap * idmap,
 	bool old_is_dir = S_ISDIR(old_inode->i_mode);
 	int err;
 
+	if (new_inode && new_inode->i_nlink == 0) {
+		ext2_error(old_dir->i_sb, __func__,
+			   "target inode %lu has zero i_nlink, filesystem may be corrupt",
+			   new_inode->i_ino);
+		return -EFSCORRUPTED;
+	}
+
 	if (flags & ~RENAME_NOREPLACE)
 		return -EINVAL;
 
-- 
2.50.1


  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-04-01 22:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-04-01 22:08 [PATCH 0/2] ext2: fix WARN_ON in drop_nlink() triggered by corrupt images Vasiliy Kovalev
2026-04-01 22:08 ` [PATCH 1/2] ext2: validate i_nlink before decrement in ext2_unlink() Vasiliy Kovalev
2026-04-01 22:08 ` Vasiliy Kovalev [this message]
2026-04-04 15:27 ` [PATCH 0/2] ext2: fix WARN_ON in drop_nlink() triggered by corrupt images Vasiliy Kovalev

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