From: DaeMyung Kang <charsyam@gmail.com>
To: Namjae Jeon <linkinjeon@kernel.org>, Hyunchul Lee <hyc.lee@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
DaeMyung Kang <charsyam@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH] ntfs: avoid use-after-free of index inode in ntfs_inode_sync_filename()
Date: Sat, 2 May 2026 09:49:16 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260502004916.492207-1-charsyam@gmail.com> (raw)
ntfs_inode_sync_filename() walks every FILE_NAME attribute and, for
each one that points at a different parent, opens the parent index
inode with ntfs_iget() and locks index_ni->mrec_lock. All three error
branches (NInoBeingDeleted, ntfs_index_ctx_get failure, ntfs_index_lookup
failure) drop the parent reference before unlocking:
iput(index_vi);
mutex_unlock(&index_ni->mrec_lock);
continue;
index_ni is NTFS_I(index_vi), so the ntfs_inode (and its mrec_lock) is
embedded in the inode allocation. If the parent directory is not held
outside the icache - no open dentry, recently evicted from dcache, no
other concurrent lookup - ntfs_iget() returns with i_count == 1 and
our iput() drops the last reference. evict_inode() then runs and
destroy_inode() schedules the slab object for RCU free, while
mutex_unlock() on the next line is still touching index_ni->mrec_lock.
Swap the order so the mutex is dropped while index_vi is still alive,
matching the success path at the bottom of the loop which already
unlocks before iput().
Reproduced under KASAN with a debug build that forces
ntfs_index_ctx_get() to fail when the parent index inode has been
opened with i_count == 1. KASAN reports a slab-use-after-free read
on the parent's mrec_lock from mutex_unlock() on the writeback worker:
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in __mutex_unlock_slowpath+0xb5/0x970
Read of size 8 at addr ffff8880014b7598 by task kworker/u8:0/12
Workqueue: writeback wb_workfn (flush-253:0)
Call Trace:
mutex_unlock
ntfs_inode_sync_filename
__ntfs_write_inode
ntfs_write_inode
__writeback_single_inode
Allocated by task 103:
ntfs_alloc_big_inode
ntfs_iget
ntfs_lookup
__x64_sys_mkdir
Freed by task 12:
ntfs_free_big_inode
i_callback
rcu_do_batch
Last potentially related work creation:
call_rcu
destroy_inode
evict
dispose_list
evict_inodes
ntfs_inode_sync_filename
__ntfs_write_inode
The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff8880014b7440
which belongs to the cache ntfs_big_inode_cache of size 1800
The freed object is the parent directory inode itself: allocated by
mkdir(2) via ntfs_iget(), then released through call_rcu(i_callback)
that destroy_inode() scheduled when evict_inodes() ran from inside
ntfs_inode_sync_filename(). Re-running the same workload with
mutex_unlock() moved before iput() runs cleanly under KASAN.
Fixes: af0db57d4293 ("ntfs: update inode operations")
Signed-off-by: DaeMyung Kang <charsyam@gmail.com>
---
fs/ntfs/inode.c | 6 +++---
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/ntfs/inode.c b/fs/ntfs/inode.c
index 16890d411194..360bebd1ee3f 100644
--- a/fs/ntfs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/ntfs/inode.c
@@ -2582,8 +2582,8 @@ int ntfs_inode_sync_filename(struct ntfs_inode *ni)
mutex_lock_nested(&index_ni->mrec_lock, NTFS_INODE_MUTEX_PARENT);
if (NInoBeingDeleted(ni)) {
- iput(index_vi);
mutex_unlock(&index_ni->mrec_lock);
+ iput(index_vi);
continue;
}
@@ -2591,8 +2591,8 @@ int ntfs_inode_sync_filename(struct ntfs_inode *ni)
if (!ictx) {
ntfs_error(sb, "Failed to get index ctx, inode %llu",
index_ni->mft_no);
- iput(index_vi);
mutex_unlock(&index_ni->mrec_lock);
+ iput(index_vi);
continue;
}
@@ -2601,8 +2601,8 @@ int ntfs_inode_sync_filename(struct ntfs_inode *ni)
ntfs_debug("Index lookup failed, inode %llu",
index_ni->mft_no);
ntfs_index_ctx_put(ictx);
- iput(index_vi);
mutex_unlock(&index_ni->mrec_lock);
+ iput(index_vi);
continue;
}
/* Update flags and file size. */
--
2.43.0
next reply other threads:[~2026-05-02 0:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-05-02 0:49 DaeMyung Kang [this message]
2026-05-03 23:38 ` [PATCH] ntfs: avoid use-after-free of index inode in ntfs_inode_sync_filename() Hyunchul Lee
2026-05-04 10:59 ` Namjae Jeon
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