* [PATCH] efivarfs: Fix slab-out-of-bounds in efivarfs_d_compare
@ 2025-08-15 10:04 linan666
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From: linan666 @ 2025-08-15 10:04 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: jk, ardb
Cc: linux-efi, linux-kernel, linan666, wanghai38, yangerkun, yi.zhang
From: Li Nan <linan122@huawei.com>
Observed in kernel 6.6 (likely present on master as well):
Call trace:
dump_backtrace+0xe4/0x1c0
show_stack+0x34/0x50
dump_stack_lvl+0x70/0x100
print_address_description.constprop.0+0x84/0x3c0
print_report+0xb0/0x280
kasan_report+0x7c/0xc8
kasan_check_range+0xe8/0x190
__asan_loadN+0x1c/0x28
memcmp+0x98/0xd0
efivarfs_d_compare+0x68/0xd8
__d_lookup_rcu_op_compare+0x178/0x218
__d_lookup_rcu+0x1f8/0x228
d_alloc_parallel+0x150/0x648
lookup_open.isra.0+0x5f0/0x8d0
open_last_lookups+0x264/0x828
path_openat+0x130/0x3f8
do_filp_open+0x114/0x248
do_sys_openat2+0x340/0x3c0
__arm64_sys_openat+0x120/0x1a0
invoke_syscall+0x78/0x1c8
el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0x14c/0x188
do_el0_svc+0x3c/0x58
el0_svc+0x44/0x1b8
el0t_64_sync_handler+0x100/0x130
el0t_64_sync+0x3c8/0x3d0
Crash analysis shows dentry->d_name.len == 35, which makes 'guid'
subtraction negative and triggers the Call trace. Temporarily mitigate
the issue by checking len.
Signed-off-by: Li Nan <linan122@huawei.com>
---
fs/efivarfs/super.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/fs/efivarfs/super.c b/fs/efivarfs/super.c
index 23ff4e873651..c30d758e303a 100644
--- a/fs/efivarfs/super.c
+++ b/fs/efivarfs/super.c
@@ -152,7 +152,7 @@ static int efivarfs_d_compare(const struct dentry *dentry,
{
int guid = len - EFI_VARIABLE_GUID_LEN;
- if (name->len != len)
+ if (name->len != len || len <= EFI_VARIABLE_GUID_LEN)
return 1;
/* Case-sensitive compare for the variable name */
--
2.39.2
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