Re: [PATCH v3 0/2] ocfs2: validate xattr metadata bounds

Joseph Qi <[email protected]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 15:10:34 +0800
Newsgroups dev.linux.lists.ocfs2-devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi,
I couldn't apply your patches cleanly upon the lastest master.
Could you please do a update?

Thanks,
Joseph

On 6/16/26 5:11 PM, Zhang Cen wrote:
> From: Cen Zhang <[email protected]>
> 
> Hi,
> 
> This v3 moves the corrupted xattr metadata checks into the metadata
> validation paths Joseph pointed at.
> 
> Patch 1 validates inline xattr metadata from
> ocfs2_validate_inode_block() and keeps the get/list consumers using the
> same helper before they derive pointers from i_xattr_inline_size.
> 
> Patch 2 validates non-indexed external xattr blocks from
> ocfs2_validate_xattr_block(). Indexed xattr buckets do not pass through
> that validator, so their header and per-entry bounds are checked after
> bucket ECC verification in ocfs2_read_xattr_bucket().
> 
> Both issues were reproduced with crafted OCFS2 images under KASAN.
> 
> Changes since v2:
> - Move inline xattr validation into ocfs2_validate_inode_block().
> - Move non-indexed external xattr validation into
>   ocfs2_validate_xattr_block().
> - Validate indexed xattr bucket entries at bucket read time, after ECC
>   verification.
> - Keep get/list path checks as helper reuse instead of a separate
>   consumer-only policy.
> 
> Cen Zhang (2):
>   ocfs2: validate inline xattrs during inode block validation
>   ocfs2: validate external xattr entries when reading metadata
> 
>  fs/ocfs2/inode.c |   4 ++
>  fs/ocfs2/xattr.c | 211 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
>  fs/ocfs2/xattr.h |   2 +
>  3 files changed, 183 insertions(+), 34 deletions(-)
>