* a negative ntfs superblock mft_lcn can cause a wild memory reference
@ 2026-08-17 21:03 rtm
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From: rtm @ 2026-08-17 21:03 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Namjae Jeon, Hyunchul Lee; +Cc: linux-fsdevel
If the ntfs superblock's mft_lcn is negative, that will pass tests
such as
ll = le64_to_cpu(b->mft_lcn);
if (ll >= vol->nr_clusters) {
and
vol->mft_zone_end = vol->mft_lcn + mft_zone_size;
while (vol->mft_zone_end >= vol->nr_clusters) {
because the variables are signed.
The attached corrupt NTFS image exploits this to cause index to be
out of bounds in ntfs_cluster_alloc(), e.g. for
if (vol->lcn_empty_bits_per_page[index] == 0)
goto next_bmp_pos;
index is derived from mft_lcn via mft_zone_end, data1_zone_pos,
zone_start, and bmp_pos.
# wget http://www.rtmrtm.org/rtm/ntfs8b.img.gz
# gunzip ntfs8b.img.gz
# cp ntfs8b.img junk
# mount -t ntfs -o loop junk /mnt
# echo x > /mnt/x
ntfs: (device loop0): check_mft_mirror(): $MFT and $MFTMirr record 0 do not match. Run chkdsk.
BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: ffff80010e38ef58
#PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
#PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
PGD 0 P4D 0
Oops: Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC PTI
CPU: 10 UID: 0 PID: 1264 Comm: tcsh Not tainted 7.2.0-rc7-00016-g3d6d817622b0 #40 PREEMPT(full)
Hardware name: FreeBSD BHYVE/BHYVE, BIOS 14.0 10/17/2021
RIP: 0010:ntfs_cluster_alloc+0x376/0x12a0
Call Trace:
<TASK>
? inode_io_list_move_locked+0xa1/0xe0
? folio_mark_dirty+0x33/0x60
ntfs_mft_data_extend_allocation_nolock+0x15b/0xa30
ntfs_mft_record_alloc+0x921/0x1790
__ntfs_create+0x1c4/0xd40
? ntfs_attr_put_search_ctx+0x3b/0x50
? kmem_cache_free+0x207/0x2f0
? __mark_inode_dirty+0x16a/0x3b0
ntfs_create+0xc1/0x170
path_openat+0xfe0/0x12f0
? do_syscall_64+0xf9/0x540
? do_getname+0x2e/0x180
do_file_open+0xdf/0x1a0
do_sys_openat2+0x79/0xe0
__x64_sys_creat+0x49/0x70
x64_sys_call+0x1bfa/0x2130
do_syscall_64+0xf9/0x540
? exc_page_fault+0x76/0x130
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
Robert Morris
rtm@mit.edu
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