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* [PATCH] fs/ntfs3: do not mark frame pages uptodate on read error
@ 2026-07-12 13:34 Weiming Shi
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From: Weiming Shi @ 2026-07-12 13:34 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Konstantin Komarov
  Cc: ntfs3, linux-fsdevel, linux-kernel, Xiang Mei, Weiming Shi

ni_read_frame() ends with a loop that marks every page of a compressed
frame uptodate regardless of whether the read succeeded:

	out:
		for (i = 0; i < pages_per_frame; i++) {
			pg = pages[i];
			SetPageUptodate(pg);
		}

Non-critical frame pages come from __filemap_get_folio(FGP_CREAT) and are
not zeroed. On an error path that reaches out: before frame_mem is
written, these pages keep uninitialized page-allocator contents but are
still marked uptodate. A later read() is then served from the page cache
and returns that stale kernel memory to user space.

For an unprivileged user mounting a crafted NTFS image this is a
repeatable kernel memory disclosure.

Mark the pages uptodate only on success; on error leave them !uptodate so
the read path re-reads them or reports the error.

Fixes: 4342306f0f0d ("fs/ntfs3: Add file operations and implementation")
Reported-by: Xiang Mei <xmei5@asu.edu>
Signed-off-by: Weiming Shi <bestswngs@gmail.com>
---
 fs/ntfs3/frecord.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/ntfs3/frecord.c b/fs/ntfs3/frecord.c
index 2d2644d80017..862baafb80e3 100644
--- a/fs/ntfs3/frecord.c
+++ b/fs/ntfs3/frecord.c
@@ -2467,7 +2467,8 @@ int ni_read_frame(struct ntfs_inode *ni, u64 frame_vbo, struct page **pages,
 out:
 	for (i = 0; i < pages_per_frame; i++) {
 		pg = pages[i];
-		SetPageUptodate(pg);
+		if (!err)
+			SetPageUptodate(pg);
 	}
 
 	return err;
-- 
2.43.0


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