[PATCH] fs/ntfs3: bound DeleteAttribute asize against rec->used in do_action
Hyeontae Lee <[email protected]> Mon, 3 Aug 2026 14:21:45 +0900
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In do_action()'s DeleteAttribute case (fslog.c:3316), attr is
Add2Ptr(rec, roff) with roff taken from the on-disk lrh->record_off, and
asize = le32_to_cpu(attr->size) is read straight out of the MFT record:
asize = le32_to_cpu(attr->size);
used = le32_to_cpu(rec->used);
if (!check_if_attr(rec, lrh))
goto dirty_vol;
...
memmove(attr, Add2Ptr(attr, asize), used - asize - roff);
check_if_attr() (fslog.c:2869) walks the attribute chain from
rec->attr_off and returns o == ro. Its loop breaks on ATTR_END, so ro may
legitimately equal the offset of the ATTR_END marker; that is exactly how
CreateAttribute appends to a record. But check_file_record()'s walk
(fslog.c:2831) also stops at ATTR_END, so check_attr() never inspects the
bytes there. When roff is the ATTR_END offset, those never-validated bytes
are what gets read as attr->size, and used - asize - roff underflows.
The read itself is also unbounded: roff is a u16 and attr->size is
dereferenced at fslog.c:3317, before check_if_attr() has constrained roff
at all, so it can be up to ~64K past a record_size-sized object.
Commit 0ca0485e4b2e ("fs/ntfs3: validate rec->used in journal-replay file
record check") added at fslog.c:2844
if (used < PtrOffset(rec, attr) + sizeof(attr->type))
return false;
and its changelog names this very memmove. It bounds rec->used against the
ATTR_END offset; it does not bound asize. With record_size 0x400,
attr_off 0x38, a valid three-attribute chain ending in ATTR_END at 0x158
and used 0x160, a record whose four bytes at 0x15c read 0x100 gives
used - asize - roff = 0x160 - 0x100 - 0x158 = 0xffffff08
i.e. a ~4 GiB memmove whose source and destination both run off the end of
rec, a kmalloc(sbi->record_size) object (record.c:105).
The equivalent non-replay path already refuses this. mi_remove_attr()
performs the same removal and starts with (record.c:548):
if (aoff + asize > used)
return false;
Apply the same bound, spelled as a subtraction to match the neighbouring
cases, and move the attr->size read after check_if_attr() so that the
header is known to lie inside the record before it is dereferenced.
Requiring roff + SIZEOF_RESIDENT <= used rejects the ATTR_END offset
without rejecting any real attribute: for an attribute the walk validated,
roff + asize <= off(ATTR_END) <= used - 4, and any attribute a
DeleteAttribute record can legitimately name carries a full resident
header, so roff + SIZEOF_RESIDENT <= roff + asize <= used - 4.
check_attr() itself imposes no lower bound on asize, so a crafted
sub-header asize can still pass the first test; the second test then
bounds it and the memmove stays inside the record.
Reproduced by mounting a crafted image on v7.2-rc5, which already contains
0ca0485e4b2e, under KASAN. The image is an ordinary mkfs.ntfs volume with
four bytes of one MFT record changed and a crafted $LogFile:
BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in do_action.isra.0+0x3211/0x83c0
Read of size 4294967048 at addr ffff888002423258 by task mount/66
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 66 Comm: mount Not tainted 7.2.0-rc5 #3
Call Trace:
kasan_report+0xce/0x100
kasan_check_range+0x105/0x1b0
__asan_memmove+0x23/0x60
do_action.isra.0+0x3211/0x83c0
log_replay+0x920a/0xd300
ntfs_loadlog_and_replay+0x3ef/0x510
ntfs_fill_super+0x1d23/0x4550
get_tree_bdev_flags+0x2ef/0x550
vfs_get_tree+0x82/0x2f0
fc_mount+0x10/0x1b0
path_mount+0x517/0x1df0
__x64_sys_mount+0x20b/0x270
do_syscall_64+0xf9/0x540
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
Allocated by task 66:
__kasan_kmalloc+0x8f/0xa0
__kmalloc_noprof+0x1b4/0x460
mi_init+0x81/0x110
mi_get+0x6a/0x220
do_action.isra.0+0x1dbf/0x83c0
log_replay+0x920a/0xd300
ntfs_loadlog_and_replay+0x3ef/0x510
ntfs_fill_super+0x1d23/0x4550
The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff888002423000
which belongs to the cache kmalloc-1k of size 1024
The buggy address is located 600 bytes inside of
allocated 1024-byte region [ffff888002423000, ffff888002423400)
KASAN reports the source side because __asan_memmove()
(mm/kasan/shadow.c:94) validates src before dest and returns without
copying. Both ends are out of bounds, and on a kernel built without
KASAN the copy is performed.
rec->used is also left at used - asize by fslog.c:3323 before the memmove,
so the record stays inconsistent even when the copy is suppressed; the same
mount goes on to report "ino=1a, mi_enum_attr" and marks the volume dirty.
Fixes: b46acd6a6a62 ("fs/ntfs3: Add NTFS journal")
Cc: [email protected]
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5
Signed-off-by: Hyeontae Lee <[email protected]>
---
fs/ntfs3/fslog.c | 15 +++++++++++++--
1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/ntfs3/fslog.c b/fs/ntfs3/fslog.c
index f038c799e7ac..f415785c60f9 100644
--- a/fs/ntfs3/fslog.c
+++ b/fs/ntfs3/fslog.c
@@ -3314,10 +3314,21 @@ static int do_action(struct ntfs_log *log, struct OPEN_ATTR_ENRTY *oe,
break;
case DeleteAttribute:
- asize = le32_to_cpu(attr->size);
used = le32_to_cpu(rec->used);
- if (!check_if_attr(rec, lrh))
+ /*
+ * check_if_attr() accepts a record_off that points at the
+ * ATTR_END marker, which is how CreateAttribute appends. The
+ * bytes there are not an attribute and check_attr() never
+ * validated them, so refuse an offset that cannot hold a
+ * resident header before reading attr->size, and then bound it
+ * as mi_remove_attr() does.
+ */
+ if (!check_if_attr(rec, lrh) || roff + SIZEOF_RESIDENT > used)
+ goto dirty_vol;
+
+ asize = le32_to_cpu(attr->size);
+ if (asize > used - roff)
goto dirty_vol;
rec->used = cpu_to_le32(used - asize);
--
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