* [PATCH/RFC] hfs: validate catalog CNIDs before writeback
@ 2026-06-30 20:59 David Maximiliano Hermitte
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From: David Maximiliano Hermitte @ 2026-06-30 20:59 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Viacheslav Dubeyko, Jori Koolstra
Cc: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz, Yangtao Li, linux-fsdevel, David
Hi Slava,
Thank you again for the previous review.
I reworked the HFS patch following your feedback. This version
uses a focused CNID validator for catalog records.
The patch now:
- adds hfs_is_valid_cnid();
- validates file and directory CNIDs in hfs_read_inode();
- marks invalid catalog records as bad inodes;
- rejects a bad root inode in hfs_fill_super();
- validates the found catalog record in hfs_cat_find_brec();
- keeps BUG() in hfs_write_inode() for internal impossible state.
Local validation:
- git diff --check: pass
- reverse apply check: pass
- checkpatch strict: 0 errors
- make fs/hfs/: pass
- make bzImage: pass
- QEMU HFS repro: started and completed
- no kernel BUG, Oops, panic, KASAN, UBSAN, or GPF observed
The goal is to treat corrupted on-disk catalog metadata as
filesystem corruption, without crashing the kernel.
Please let me know whether this matches the expected direction.
Thanks,
David
---
diff --git a/fs/hfs/catalog.c b/fs/hfs/catalog.c
index 632c226a3..87aa45db4 100644
--- a/fs/hfs/catalog.c
+++ b/fs/hfs/catalog.c
@@ -184,6 +184,31 @@ int hfs_cat_keycmp(const btree_key *key1, const btree_key *key2)
/* Try to get a catalog entry for given catalog id */
// move to read_super???
+static int hfs_cat_validate_found_cnid(struct hfs_find_data *fd)
+{
+ hfs_cat_rec rec;
+ int err;
+
+ err = hfs_brec_read(fd, &rec, sizeof(rec));
+ if (err)
+ return err;
+
+ switch (rec.type) {
+ case HFS_CDR_FIL:
+ if (!hfs_is_valid_cnid(be32_to_cpu(rec.file.FlNum), HFS_CDR_FIL))
+ return -EFSCORRUPTED;
+ break;
+ case HFS_CDR_DIR:
+ if (!hfs_is_valid_cnid(be32_to_cpu(rec.dir.DirID), HFS_CDR_DIR))
+ return -EFSCORRUPTED;
+ break;
+ default:
+ return -EFSCORRUPTED;
+ }
+
+ return 0;
+}
+
int hfs_cat_find_brec(struct super_block *sb, u32 cnid,
struct hfs_find_data *fd)
{
@@ -208,7 +233,11 @@ int hfs_cat_find_brec(struct super_block *sb, u32 cnid,
return -EIO;
}
memcpy(fd->search_key->cat.CName.name, rec.thread.CName.name, len);
- return hfs_brec_find(fd);
+ err = hfs_brec_find(fd);
+ if (err)
+ return err;
+
+ return hfs_cat_validate_found_cnid(fd);
}
diff --git a/fs/hfs/hfs_fs.h b/fs/hfs/hfs_fs.h
index 49d02524e..d0eb10c4b 100644
--- a/fs/hfs/hfs_fs.h
+++ b/fs/hfs/hfs_fs.h
@@ -186,6 +186,30 @@ extern void hfs_cat_build_key(struct super_block *, btree_key *, u32, const stru
/* dir.c */
extern const struct file_operations hfs_dir_operations;
+
+/*
+ * Validate the CNID of a catalog record.
+ */
+static inline bool hfs_is_valid_cnid(u32 cnid, u8 type)
+{
+ if (likely(cnid >= HFS_FIRSTUSER_CNID))
+ return true;
+
+ switch (cnid) {
+ case HFS_ROOT_CNID:
+ return type == HFS_CDR_DIR;
+ case HFS_EXT_CNID:
+ case HFS_CAT_CNID:
+ return type == HFS_CDR_FIL;
+ case HFS_POR_CNID:
+ case HFS_BAD_CNID:
+ case HFS_EXCH_CNID:
+ return false;
+ default:
+ return false;
+ }
+}
+
extern const struct inode_operations hfs_dir_inode_operations;
/* extent.c */
diff --git a/fs/hfs/inode.c b/fs/hfs/inode.c
index 61ed76d10..90d676dc9 100644
--- a/fs/hfs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/hfs/inode.c
@@ -344,6 +344,11 @@ static int hfs_read_inode(struct inode *inode, void *data)
rec = idata->rec;
switch (rec->type) {
case HFS_CDR_FIL:
+ if (!hfs_is_valid_cnid(be32_to_cpu(rec->file.FlNum), HFS_CDR_FIL)) {
+ pr_warn_ratelimited("hfs: invalid file CNID %u; run fsck\n",
+ be32_to_cpu(rec->file.FlNum));
+ goto bad_inode;
+ }
if (!HFS_IS_RSRC(inode)) {
hfs_inode_read_fork(inode, rec->file.ExtRec, rec->file.LgLen,
rec->file.PyLen, be16_to_cpu(rec->file.ClpSize));
@@ -365,6 +370,11 @@ static int hfs_read_inode(struct inode *inode, void *data)
inode->i_mapping->a_ops = &hfs_aops;
break;
case HFS_CDR_DIR:
+ if (!hfs_is_valid_cnid(be32_to_cpu(rec->dir.DirID), HFS_CDR_DIR)) {
+ pr_warn_ratelimited("hfs: invalid directory CNID %u; run fsck\n",
+ be32_to_cpu(rec->dir.DirID));
+ goto bad_inode;
+ }
inode->i_ino = be32_to_cpu(rec->dir.DirID);
inode->i_size = be16_to_cpu(rec->dir.Val) + 2;
HFS_I(inode)->fs_blocks = 0;
@@ -375,9 +385,15 @@ static int hfs_read_inode(struct inode *inode, void *data)
inode->i_fop = &hfs_dir_operations;
break;
default:
- make_bad_inode(inode);
+ pr_warn_ratelimited("hfs: invalid catalog record type %u; run fsck\n",
+ rec->type);
+ goto bad_inode;
}
return 0;
+
+bad_inode:
+ make_bad_inode(inode);
+ return 0;
}
/*
@@ -435,20 +451,20 @@ int hfs_write_inode(struct inode *inode, struct writeback_control *wbc)
if (res)
return res;
- if (inode->i_ino < HFS_FIRSTUSER_CNID) {
- switch (inode->i_ino) {
- case HFS_ROOT_CNID:
- break;
- case HFS_EXT_CNID:
- hfs_btree_write(HFS_SB(inode->i_sb)->ext_tree);
- return 0;
- case HFS_CAT_CNID:
- hfs_btree_write(HFS_SB(inode->i_sb)->cat_tree);
- return 0;
- default:
- BUG();
- return -EIO;
- }
+ if (!hfs_is_valid_cnid(inode->i_ino,
+ S_ISDIR(inode->i_mode) ? HFS_CDR_DIR :
+ HFS_CDR_FIL))
+ BUG();
+
+ switch (inode->i_ino) {
+ case HFS_EXT_CNID:
+ hfs_btree_write(HFS_SB(inode->i_sb)->ext_tree);
+ return 0;
+ case HFS_CAT_CNID:
+ hfs_btree_write(HFS_SB(inode->i_sb)->cat_tree);
+ return 0;
+ default:
+ break;
}
if (HFS_IS_RSRC(inode))
diff --git a/fs/hfs/super.c b/fs/hfs/super.c
index 53800105e..9428cd7fe 100644
--- a/fs/hfs/super.c
+++ b/fs/hfs/super.c
@@ -432,7 +432,7 @@ static int hfs_fill_super(struct super_block *sb, void *data, int silent)
res = -EINVAL;
root_inode = hfs_iget(sb, &fd.search_key->cat, &rec);
hfs_find_exit(&fd);
- if (!root_inode)
+ if (!root_inode || is_bad_inode(root_inode))
goto bail_no_root;
sb->s_d_op = &hfs_dentry_operations;
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