Re: [PATCH] fs/ntfs3: terminate the cached volume label after UTF-8 conversion

Konstantin Komarov <[email protected]> Tue, 7 Apr 2026 19:14:54 +0200
Newsgroups dev.linux.lists.ntfs3,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 3/27/26 07:19, Pengpeng Hou wrote:

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> ntfs_fill_super() loads the on-disk volume label with utf16s_to_utf8s()
> and stores the result in sbi->volume.label. The converted label is later
> exposed through ntfs3_label_show() using %s, but utf16s_to_utf8s() only
> returns the number of bytes written and does not add a trailing NUL.
>
> If the converted label fills the entire fixed buffer,
> ntfs3_label_show() can read past the end of sbi->volume.label while
> looking for a terminator.
>
> Terminate the cached label explicitly after a successful conversion and
> clamp the exact-full case to the last byte of the buffer.
>
> Fixes: 82cae269cfa9 ("fs/ntfs3: Add initialization of super block")
> Signed-off-by: Pengpeng Hou <[email protected]>
> ---
>   fs/ntfs3/super.c | 7 ++++++-
>   1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/ntfs3/super.c b/fs/ntfs3/super.c
> index 174a7cb202a0..9ed485f9efba 100644
> --- a/fs/ntfs3/super.c
> +++ b/fs/ntfs3/super.c
> @@ -1339,8 +1339,13 @@ static int ntfs_fill_super(struct super_block *sb, struct fs_context *fc)
>                                        le32_to_cpu(attr->res.data_size) >> 1,
>                                        UTF16_LITTLE_ENDIAN, sbi->volume.label,
>                                        sizeof(sbi->volume.label));
> -               if (err < 0)
> +               if (err < 0) {
>                          sbi->volume.label[0] = 0;
> +               } else if (err >= sizeof(sbi->volume.label)) {
> +                       sbi->volume.label[sizeof(sbi->volume.label) - 1] = 0;
> +               } else {
> +                       sbi->volume.label[err] = 0;
> +               }
>          } else {
>                  /* Should we break mounting here? */
>                  //err = -EINVAL;
> --
> 2.50.1 (Apple Git-155)
>
Hello,

Applied, thanks for the patch.

Regards,
Konstantin