* [PATCH] ntfs: prevent out-of-bounds write from a corrupt runlist
@ 2026-08-15 6:41 Dennis Tighe
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From: Dennis Tighe @ 2026-08-15 6:41 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Namjae Jeon, Hyunchul Lee; +Cc: linux-fsdevel, linux-kernel
For the cluster bitmap ($Bitmap), __ntfs_bitmap_set_bits_in_run() uses a
cluster number as an index into vol->lcn_empty_bits_per_page[] via
ntfs_set_lcn_empty_bits(), with no upper bound on the index. On the
deallocation path that cluster number is read from an on-disk runlist, so a
corrupted runlist naming a cluster beyond the end of the volume writes past
the end of the array into adjacent memory when a file is freed.
Reject cluster ranges outside the volume before updating the array,
mirroring the nr_clusters check already used in ntfs_trim_fs().
Fixes: 11ccc9107dc4 ("ntfs: update runlist handling and cluster allocator")
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8
Signed-off-by: Dennis Tighe <dennis.tighe@gmail.com>
---
fs/ntfs/bitmap.c | 15 +++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 15 insertions(+)
diff --git a/fs/ntfs/bitmap.c b/fs/ntfs/bitmap.c
index b1436b3..fb65bce 100644
--- a/fs/ntfs/bitmap.c
+++ b/fs/ntfs/bitmap.c
@@ -138,6 +138,21 @@ int __ntfs_bitmap_set_bits_in_run(struct inode *vi,
const s64 start_bit,
if (start_bit < 0 || cnt < 0 || value > 1)
return -EINVAL;
+ /*
+ * For $Bitmap, @start_bit is a cluster number that comes from an
+ * on-disk runlist on the free path. A corrupt runlist can name a
+ * cluster past the end of the volume and index
+ * vol->lcn_empty_bits_per_page[] out of bounds below, so reject it.
+ */
+ if (ni->mft_no == FILE_Bitmap &&
+ (start_bit >= vol->nr_clusters || cnt > vol->nr_clusters -
start_bit)) {
+ ntfs_error(vi->i_sb,
+ "Cluster range (0x%llx+0x%llx) outside volume 0x%llx;
corrupt runlist.",
+ (unsigned long long)start_bit, (unsigned long long)cnt,
+ (unsigned long long)vol->nr_clusters);
+ return -EIO;
+ }
+
/*
* Calculate the indices for the pages containing the first and last
* bits, i.e. @start_bit and @start_bit + @cnt - 1, respectively.
--
2.47.3
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