[PATCH 6.12 158/169] fs/ntfs3: Initialize allocated memory before use

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-01-28T15:50:27Z

From: Bartlomiej Kubik <kubik.bartlomiej@gmail.com>

[ Upstream commit a8a3ca23bbd9d849308a7921a049330dc6c91398 ]

KMSAN reports: Multiple uninitialized values detected:

- KMSAN: uninit-value in ntfs_read_hdr (3)
- KMSAN: uninit-value in bcmp (3)

Memory is allocated by __getname(), which is a wrapper for
kmem_cache_alloc(). This memory is used before being properly
cleared. Change kmem_cache_alloc() to kmem_cache_zalloc() to
properly allocate and clear memory before use.

Fixes: 82cae269cfa9 ("fs/ntfs3: Add initialization of super block")
Fixes: 78ab59fee07f ("fs/ntfs3: Rework file operations")
Tested-by: syzbot+332bd4e9d148f11a87dc@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Reported-by: syzbot+332bd4e9d148f11a87dc@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=332bd4e9d148f11a87dc

Fixes: 82cae269cfa9 ("fs/ntfs3: Add initialization of super block")
Fixes: 78ab59fee07f ("fs/ntfs3: Rework file operations")
Tested-by: syzbot+0399100e525dd9696764@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Reported-by: syzbot+0399100e525dd9696764@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=0399100e525dd9696764

Reviewed-by: Khalid Aziz <khalid@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Kubik <kubik.bartlomiej@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Konstantin Komarov <almaz.alexandrovich@paragon-software.com>
Signed-off-by: Li hongliang <1468888505@139.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
fs/ntfs3/inode.c | 7 +++----
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

--- a/fs/ntfs3/inode.c
+++ b/fs/ntfs3/inode.c
@@ -1301,7 +1301,7 @@ int ntfs_create_inode(struct mnt_idmap *
fa |= FILE_ATTRIBUTE_READONLY;

/* Allocate PATH_MAX bytes. */
- new_de = __getname();
+ new_de = kmem_cache_zalloc(names_cachep, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!new_de) {
err = -ENOMEM;
goto out1;
@@ -1734,10 +1734,9 @@ int ntfs_link_inode(struct inode *inode,
struct NTFS_DE *de;

/* Allocate PATH_MAX bytes. */
- de = __getname();
+ de = kmem_cache_zalloc(names_cachep, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!de)
return -ENOMEM;
- memset(de, 0, PATH_MAX);

/* Mark rw ntfs as dirty. It will be cleared at umount. */
ntfs_set_state(sbi, NTFS_DIRTY_DIRTY);
@@ -1773,7 +1772,7 @@ int ntfs_unlink_inode(struct inode *dir,
return -EINVAL;

/* Allocate PATH_MAX bytes. */
- de = __getname();
+ de = kmem_cache_zalloc(names_cachep, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!de)
return -ENOMEM;