From: Dennis Tighe <dennis.tighe@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
Subject: [PATCH] ntfs: reject zero sectors_per_cluster in the boot sector
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2026 07:22:29 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6a885f2d.d76d81af.1755f0.2cd9@mx.google.com> (raw)
is_boot_sector_ntfs() checks the boot sector's sectors_per_cluster field
with a range test that rejects 0x81..0xf3 but accepts 0. A zero value
then reaches parse_ntfs_boot_sector():
sectors_per_cluster_bits = ffs(sectors_per_cluster) - 1;
...
vol->cluster_size = vol->sector_size << sectors_per_cluster_bits;
ffs(0) is 0, so sectors_per_cluster_bits becomes (unsigned)-1 and the
shift is undefined:
UBSAN: shift-out-of-bounds in fs/ntfs/super.c:673:39
shift exponent 4294967295 is too large for 32-bit type 'int'
Reject sectors_per_cluster == 0 alongside the existing range check.
Fixes: 6251f0b0de7d ("ntfs: update super block operations")
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8
Signed-off-by: Dennis Tighe <dennis.tighe@gmail.com>
---
is_boot_sector_ntfs() is where the driver decides an image is NTFS, so
rejecting sectors_per_cluster == 0 there stops the bad geometry before
parse_ntfs_boot_sector() computes ffs(0) - 1. Reached by mounting a test
image on my dev machine.
A reproducer is available on request.
fs/ntfs/super.c | 5 +++--
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/ntfs/super.c b/fs/ntfs/super.c
index d400fea32..48bea5ce1 100644
--- a/fs/ntfs/super.c
+++ b/fs/ntfs/super.c
@@ -557,8 +557,9 @@ static bool is_boot_sector_ntfs(const struct super_block *sb,
* Check sectors per cluster value is valid and the cluster size
* is not above the maximum (2MB).
*/
- if (b->bpb.sectors_per_cluster > 0x80 &&
- b->bpb.sectors_per_cluster < 0xf4)
+ if (!b->bpb.sectors_per_cluster ||
+ (b->bpb.sectors_per_cluster > 0x80 &&
+ b->bpb.sectors_per_cluster < 0xf4))
goto not_ntfs;
/* Check reserved/unused fields are really zero. */
next reply other threads:[~2026-08-21 14:22 UTC|newest]
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2026-08-21 14:22 Dennis Tighe [this message]
2026-08-25 4:25 ` [PATCH] ntfs: reject zero sectors_per_cluster in the boot sector Hyunchul Lee
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