[PATCH] ntfs3: reject empty iomap before reading its LCN

Yousef Alhouseen <[email protected]> Tue, 30 Jun 2026 23:17:43 +0200
Newsgroups dev.linux.lists.ntfs3,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel,org.kernel.vger.stable
Message-ID <[email protected]>
attr_data_get_block() can return success with a zero run length when no
cached or on-disk mapping covers a read VCN. In that case it does not
initialize the LCN output.

Check the returned length before comparing the LCN against the special
mapping values. This preserves the existing -EINVAL result for an empty
mapping without passing an uninitialized LCN to the comparisons.

Fixes: ecbb433f9a8e ("fs/ntfs3: fold file size handling into ntfs_set_size()")
Reported-by: [email protected]
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=4b4ec878e25fafefa70f
Cc: [email protected]
Signed-off-by: Yousef Alhouseen <[email protected]>
---
 fs/ntfs3/inode.c | 7 ++-----
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/ntfs3/inode.c b/fs/ntfs3/inode.c
index c43101cc064d..a428f03a695d 100644
--- a/fs/ntfs3/inode.c
+++ b/fs/ntfs3/inode.c
@@ -777,6 +777,8 @@ static int ntfs_iomap_begin(struct inode *inode, loff_t offset, loff_t length,
 	if (err) {
 		return err;
 	}
+	if (!clen)
+		return -EINVAL;
 
 	if (lcn == EOF_LCN) {
 		/* request out of file. */
@@ -811,11 +813,6 @@ static int ntfs_iomap_begin(struct inode *inode, loff_t offset, loff_t length,
 		return 0;
 	}
 
-	if (!clen) {
-		/* broken file? */
-		return -EINVAL;
-	}
-
 	iomap->bdev = inode->i_sb->s_bdev;
 	iomap->offset = offset;
 	iomap->length = ((loff_t)clen << cluster_bits) - off;
-- 
2.55.0