From: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
To: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Cc: Samuel Page <sam@bynar.io>,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org,
Qi Tang <tpluszz77@gmail.com>, Zijun Hu <nightu@northwestern.edu>
Subject: [PATCH] fuse: reject oversized dirents in page cache
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2026 11:01:37 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260420090139.662772-1-mszeredi@redhat.com> (raw)
From: Samuel Page <sam@bynar.io>
fuse_add_dirent_to_cache() computes a serialized dirent size from the
server-controlled namelen field and copies the dirent into a single
page-cache page. The existing logic only checks whether the dirent fits
in the remaining space of the current page and advances to a fresh page
if not. It never checks whether the dirent itself exceeds PAGE_SIZE.
As a result, a malicious FUSE server can return a dirent with
namelen=4095, producing a serialized record size of 4120 bytes. On 4 KiB
page systems this causes memcpy() to overflow the cache page by 24 bytes
into the following kernel page.
Reject dirents that cannot fit in a single page before copying them into
the readdir cache.
Fixes: 69e34551152a ("fuse: allow caching readdir")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v6.16+
Assisted-by: Bynario AI
Signed-off-by: Samuel Page <sam@bynar.io>
Reported-by: Qi Tang <tpluszz77@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Zijun Hu <nightu@northwestern.edu>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
---
fs/fuse/readdir.c | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
diff --git a/fs/fuse/readdir.c b/fs/fuse/readdir.c
index c88194e52d18..db5ae8ec1030 100644
--- a/fs/fuse/readdir.c
+++ b/fs/fuse/readdir.c
@@ -41,6 +41,10 @@ static void fuse_add_dirent_to_cache(struct file *file,
unsigned int offset;
void *addr;
+ /* Dirent doesn't fit in readdir cache page? Skip caching. */
+ if (reclen > PAGE_SIZE)
+ return;
+
spin_lock(&fi->rdc.lock);
/*
* Is cache already completed? Or this entry does not go at the end of
--
2.53.0
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