From: Oscar Deschamps <odeschamps.mail@gmail.com>
To: joaomarcos.costa@bootlin.com, richard.genoud@bootlin.com
Cc: miquel.raynal@bootlin.com, trini@konsulko.com,
thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com, u-boot@lists.u-boot-project.org,
Oscar Deschamps <odeschamps.mail@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH] fs/squashfs: fix NULL dereference on empty-directory lookup
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2026 16:39:40 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261029153940.461197-1-odeschamps.mail@gmail.com> (raw)
The three directory-search loops in sqfs.c use the local `ret` to tell
whether the requested name was found. When the loop runs zero times
`ret` keeps the 0 left by the preceding sqfs_opendir_nest(),
so the "not found" check is skipped and the NULL dirs->entry
is dereferenced (dirs->entry->inode_offset). A crafted or corrupted image
can thus crash U-Boot (a NULL read) while resolving,
reading or sizing a path.
Treat a loop that produced no entry as "not found" in sqfs_search_dir(),
sqfs_read_nest() and sqfs_size_nest(). Found by fuzzing the SquashFS
parser.
Signed-off-by: Oscar Deschamps <odeschamps.mail@gmail.com>
---
fs/squashfs/sqfs.c | 6 +++---
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/squashfs/sqfs.c b/fs/squashfs/sqfs.c
index 0ea6dcaba1a..c8d2ade83e4 100644
--- a/fs/squashfs/sqfs.c
+++ b/fs/squashfs/sqfs.c
@@ -581,7 +581,7 @@ static int sqfs_search_dir(struct squashfs_dir_stream *dirs, char **token_list,
dirs->entry = NULL;
}
- if (ret) {
+ if (ret || !dirs->entry) {
printf("** Cannot find directory. **\n");
ret = -EINVAL;
goto out;
@@ -1501,7 +1501,7 @@ static int sqfs_read_nest(const char *filename, void *buf, loff_t offset,
dirs->entry = NULL;
}
- if (ret) {
+ if (ret || !dirs->entry) {
printf("File not found.\n");
*actread = 0;
ret = -ENOENT;
@@ -1803,7 +1803,7 @@ static int sqfs_size_nest(const char *filename, loff_t *size)
dirs->entry = NULL;
}
- if (ret) {
+ if (ret || !dirs->entry) {
printf("File not found.\n");
*size = 0;
ret = -EINVAL;
--
2.43.0
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2026-10-29 15:39 Oscar Deschamps [this message]
2026-10-30 9:25 ` [PATCH] fs/squashfs: fix NULL dereference on empty-directory lookup Miquel Raynal
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