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From: <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: anderson@allelesecurity.com,dsterba@suse.com
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: FAILED: patch "[PATCH] btrfs: avoid potential out-of-bounds in btrfs_encode_fh()" failed to apply to 5.10-stable tree
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2025 14:05:45 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2025101645-ceremony-playlist-e997@gregkh> (raw)


The patch below does not apply to the 5.10-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
id to <stable@vger.kernel.org>.

To reproduce the conflict and resubmit, you may use the following commands:

git fetch https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/ linux-5.10.y
git checkout FETCH_HEAD
git cherry-pick -x dff4f9ff5d7f289e4545cc936362e01ed3252742
# <resolve conflicts, build, test, etc.>
git commit -s
git send-email --to '<stable@vger.kernel.org>' --in-reply-to '2025101645-ceremony-playlist-e997@gregkh' --subject-prefix 'PATCH 5.10.y' HEAD^..

Possible dependencies:



thanks,

greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

From dff4f9ff5d7f289e4545cc936362e01ed3252742 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Anderson Nascimento <anderson@allelesecurity.com>
Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2025 09:49:02 -0300
Subject: [PATCH] btrfs: avoid potential out-of-bounds in btrfs_encode_fh()

The function btrfs_encode_fh() does not properly account for the three
cases it handles.

Before writing to the file handle (fh), the function only returns to the
user BTRFS_FID_SIZE_NON_CONNECTABLE (5 dwords, 20 bytes) or
BTRFS_FID_SIZE_CONNECTABLE (8 dwords, 32 bytes).

However, when a parent exists and the root ID of the parent and the
inode are different, the function writes BTRFS_FID_SIZE_CONNECTABLE_ROOT
(10 dwords, 40 bytes).

If *max_len is not large enough, this write goes out of bounds because
BTRFS_FID_SIZE_CONNECTABLE_ROOT is greater than
BTRFS_FID_SIZE_CONNECTABLE originally returned.

This results in an 8-byte out-of-bounds write at
fid->parent_root_objectid = parent_root_id.

A previous attempt to fix this issue was made but was lost.

https://lore.kernel.org/all/4CADAEEC020000780001B32C@vpn.id2.novell.com/

Although this issue does not seem to be easily triggerable, it is a
potential memory corruption bug that should be fixed. This patch
resolves the issue by ensuring the function returns the appropriate size
for all three cases and validates that *max_len is large enough before
writing any data.

Fixes: be6e8dc0ba84 ("NFS support for btrfs - v3")
CC: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.0+
Signed-off-by: Anderson Nascimento <anderson@allelesecurity.com>
Reviewed-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>

diff --git a/fs/btrfs/export.c b/fs/btrfs/export.c
index d062ac521051..230d9326b685 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/export.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/export.c
@@ -23,7 +23,11 @@ static int btrfs_encode_fh(struct inode *inode, u32 *fh, int *max_len,
 	int type;
 
 	if (parent && (len < BTRFS_FID_SIZE_CONNECTABLE)) {
-		*max_len = BTRFS_FID_SIZE_CONNECTABLE;
+		if (btrfs_root_id(BTRFS_I(inode)->root) !=
+		    btrfs_root_id(BTRFS_I(parent)->root))
+			*max_len = BTRFS_FID_SIZE_CONNECTABLE_ROOT;
+		else
+			*max_len = BTRFS_FID_SIZE_CONNECTABLE;
 		return FILEID_INVALID;
 	} else if (len < BTRFS_FID_SIZE_NON_CONNECTABLE) {
 		*max_len = BTRFS_FID_SIZE_NON_CONNECTABLE;
@@ -45,6 +49,8 @@ static int btrfs_encode_fh(struct inode *inode, u32 *fh, int *max_len,
 		parent_root_id = btrfs_root_id(BTRFS_I(parent)->root);
 
 		if (parent_root_id != fid->root_objectid) {
+			if (*max_len < BTRFS_FID_SIZE_CONNECTABLE_ROOT)
+				return FILEID_INVALID;
 			fid->parent_root_objectid = parent_root_id;
 			len = BTRFS_FID_SIZE_CONNECTABLE_ROOT;
 			type = FILEID_BTRFS_WITH_PARENT_ROOT;


             reply	other threads:[~2025-10-16 12:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-10-16 12:05 gregkh [this message]
2025-10-18 16:01 ` [PATCH 5.10.y] btrfs: avoid potential out-of-bounds in btrfs_encode_fh() Sasha Levin

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