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From: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
To: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Baokun Li <libaokun1@huawei.com>,
	syzbot+23aee7afc440fe803545@syzkaller.appspotmail.com,
	Konstantin Komarov <almaz.alexandrovich@paragon-software.com>,
	Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 6.18.y 3/4] fs/ntfs3: fix ntfs_mount_options leak in ntfs_fill_super()
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2026 11:30:32 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261021152930.293677-3-sashal@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261021152930.293677-1-sashal@kernel.org>

From: Baokun Li <libaokun1@huawei.com>

[ Upstream commit f7edab0cee03a1cbe0e55a7bcab8d2d8b6b74278 ]

In ntfs_fill_super(), the fc->fs_private pointer is set to NULL without
first freeing the memory it points to. This causes the subsequent call to
ntfs_fs_free() to skip freeing the ntfs_mount_options structure.

This results in a kmemleak report:

  unreferenced object 0xff1100015378b800 (size 32):
    comm "mount", pid 582, jiffies 4294890685
    hex dump (first 32 bytes):
      00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
      00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ed ff ed ff 00 04 00 00  ................
    backtrace (crc ed541d8c):
      __kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x424/0x5a0
      __ntfs_init_fs_context+0x47/0x590
      alloc_fs_context+0x5d8/0x960
      __x64_sys_fsopen+0xb1/0x190
      do_syscall_64+0x50/0x1f0
      entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e

This issue can be reproduced using the following commands:
        fallocate -l 100M test.file
        mount test.file /tmp/test

Since sbi->options is duplicated from fc->fs_private and does not
directly use the memory allocated for fs_private, it is unnecessary to
set fc->fs_private to NULL.

Additionally, this patch simplifies the code by utilizing the helper
function put_mount_options() instead of open-coding the cleanup logic.

Reported-by: syzbot+23aee7afc440fe803545@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=23aee7afc440fe803545
Fixes: aee4d5a521e9 ("ntfs3: fix double free of sbi->options->nls and clarify ownership of fc->fs_private")
Signed-off-by: Baokun Li <libaokun1@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Konstantin Komarov <almaz.alexandrovich@paragon-software.com>

Preserve the existing sbi && sbi->options guard in the failed-mount
cleanup while replacing the open-coded frees with put_mount_options().
Keep clearing sbi->options after release so later cleanup cannot
free the same options again.

Stable-dep-of: c01b091b0641 ("ntfs3: free the sbi after a grace period")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
 fs/ntfs3/super.c | 9 ++-------
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/ntfs3/super.c b/fs/ntfs3/super.c
index 791d3cc489a42..558f96db9019c 100644
--- a/fs/ntfs3/super.c
+++ b/fs/ntfs3/super.c
@@ -705,9 +705,7 @@ static void ntfs_put_super(struct super_block *sb)
 	ntfs_set_state(sbi, NTFS_DIRTY_CLEAR);
 
 	if (sbi->options) {
-		unload_nls(sbi->options->nls);
-		kfree(sbi->options->nls_name);
-		kfree(sbi->options);
+		put_mount_options(sbi->options);
 		sbi->options = NULL;
 	}
 
@@ -1264,7 +1262,6 @@ static int ntfs_fill_super(struct super_block *sb, struct fs_context *fc)
 		}
 	}
 	sbi->options = options;
-	fc->fs_private = NULL;
 	sb->s_flags |= SB_NODIRATIME;
 	sb->s_magic = 0x7366746e; // "ntfs"
 	sb->s_op = &ntfs_sops;
@@ -1694,9 +1691,7 @@ static int ntfs_fill_super(struct super_block *sb, struct fs_context *fc)
 	iput(inode);
 out:
 	if (sbi && sbi->options) {
-		unload_nls(sbi->options->nls);
-		kfree(sbi->options->nls_name);
-		kfree(sbi->options);
+		put_mount_options(sbi->options);
 		sbi->options = NULL;
 	}
 
-- 
2.53.0


  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-10-21 15:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-10-21 14:38 FAILED: patch "[PATCH] ntfs3: free the sbi after a grace period" failed to apply to 6.18-stable tree gregkh
2026-10-21 15:30 ` [PATCH 6.18.y 1/4] ntfs3: fix use-after-free of sbi->options in cmp_fnames Sasha Levin
2026-10-21 15:30   ` [PATCH 6.18.y 2/4] ntfs3: fix double free of sbi->options->nls and clarify ownership of fc->fs_private Sasha Levin
2026-10-21 15:30   ` Sasha Levin [this message]
2026-10-21 15:30   ` [PATCH 6.18.y 4/4] ntfs3: free the sbi after a grace period Sasha Levin

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