The Linux Kernel Mailing List
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Qing Wang <wangqing7171@gmail.com>
To: ebiggers@kernel.org
Cc: jaegeuk@kernel.org, linux-fscrypt@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	syzbot+d130f98b2c265fae5297@syzkaller.appspotmail.com,
	tytso@mit.edu, wangqing7171@gmail.com
Subject: [PATCH v2] fscrypt: Fix uninit-value in ovl_fill_real
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2026 14:22:16 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260126062216.496560-1-wangqing7171@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260124182547.GA2762@quark>

Syzbot reported a KMSAN uninit-value issue in ovl_fill_real.

This iusse's call chain is:
__do_sys_getdents64()
    -> iterate_dir()
        ...
            -> ext4_readdir()
                -> fscrypt_fname_alloc_buffer() // alloc
                -> fscrypt_fname_disk_to_usr // write without tail '\0'
                -> dir_emit()
                    -> ovl_fill_real() // read by strcmp()

The string is used to store the decrypted directory entry name for an
encrypted inode. As shown in the call chain, fscrypt_fname_disk_to_usr()
write it wthout null-terminate. However, ovl_fill_real() uses strcmp() to
compare the name against "..", which assumes a null-terminated string and
may trigger a KMSAN uninit-value warning when the buffer tail contains
uninit data.

Reported-by: syzbot+d130f98b2c265fae5297@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Fixes: 4edb83bb1041 ("ovl: constant d_ino for non-merge dirs")
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=d130f98b2c265fae5297
Signed-off-by: Qing Wang <wangqing7171@gmail.com>
---
 fs/overlayfs/readdir.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/readdir.c b/fs/overlayfs/readdir.c
index 160960bb0ad0..e852b38949b6 100644
--- a/fs/overlayfs/readdir.c
+++ b/fs/overlayfs/readdir.c
@@ -755,7 +755,7 @@ static bool ovl_fill_real(struct dir_context *ctx, const char *name,
 	struct dir_context *orig_ctx = rdt->orig_ctx;
 	bool res;
 
-	if (rdt->parent_ino && strcmp(name, "..") == 0) {
+	if (rdt->parent_ino && namelen == 2 && strncmp(name, "..", namelen) == 0) {
 		ino = rdt->parent_ino;
 	} else if (rdt->cache) {
 		struct ovl_cache_entry *p;
-- 
2.34.1


  reply	other threads:[~2026-01-26  6:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-01-23  7:30 [PATCH] fscrypt: Fix uninit-value in ovl_fill_real Qing Wang
2026-01-24 18:25 ` Eric Biggers
2026-01-26  6:22   ` Qing Wang [this message]
2026-01-27  3:47     ` [PATCH v2] " Eric Biggers
2026-01-27  6:10       ` [PATCH] " Qing Wang
2026-01-26  6:33   ` Qing Wang

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=20260126062216.496560-1-wangqing7171@gmail.com \
    --to=wangqing7171@gmail.com \
    --cc=ebiggers@kernel.org \
    --cc=jaegeuk@kernel.org \
    --cc=linux-fscrypt@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=syzbot+d130f98b2c265fae5297@syzkaller.appspotmail.com \
    --cc=tytso@mit.edu \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox