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From: MottiKumar Babu <mottikumarbabu@gmail.com>
To: cem@kernel.org, djwong@kernel.org, chandanbabu@kernel.org,
	dchinner@redhat.com, zhangjiachen.jaycee@bytedance.com,
	linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel-mentees@lists.linux.dev, anupnewsmail@gmail.com,
	skhan@linuxfoundation.org
Subject: [PATCH] Fix out-of-bounds access in xfs_bmapi_allocate by validating whichfork
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2024 01:05:27 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20241027193541.14212-1-mottikumarbabu@gmail.com> (raw)

This issue was reported by Coverity Scan.

Report:
CID 1633175 Out-of-bounds access - Access of memory not owned by this buffer may cause crashes or incorrect computations.
In xfs_bmapi_allocate: Out-of-bounds access to a buffer (CWE-119)

Signed-off-by: MottiKumar Babu <mottikumarbabu@gmail.com>
---
 fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_bmap.c | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_bmap.c b/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_bmap.c
index 36dd08d13293..6ff378d2d3d9 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_bmap.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_bmap.c
@@ -4169,6 +4169,10 @@ xfs_bmapi_allocate(
 		 * is not on the busy list.
 		 */
 		bma->datatype = XFS_ALLOC_NOBUSY;
+		// Ensure whichfork is valid (0 or 1) before further checks
+		if (whichfork < 0 || whichfork > 1) {
+			return -EINVAL; // Invalid fork
+		}
 		if (whichfork == XFS_DATA_FORK || whichfork == XFS_COW_FORK) {
 			bma->datatype |= XFS_ALLOC_USERDATA;
 			if (bma->offset == 0)
-- 
2.43.0


             reply	other threads:[~2024-10-27 19:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-10-27 19:35 MottiKumar Babu [this message]
2024-10-27 20:32 ` [PATCH] Follow-up on Submitted Patch: Fix out-of-bounds access in xfs_bmapi_allocate MottiKumar Babu
2024-10-27 22:53 ` [PATCH] Fix out-of-bounds access in xfs_bmapi_allocate by validating whichfork Dave Chinner
2024-10-28  8:46 ` Christoph Hellwig
2024-11-01  3:36 ` kernel test robot

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