[PATCH] nilfs2: reject invalid block index in GC ioctl

Ryusuke Konishi <[email protected]> Fri, 3 Jul 2026 01:07:19 +0900
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.linux-nilfs,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Syzbot reported list corruption caused by a double list_add_tail() call on
bh->b_assoc_buffers within nilfs_lookup_dirty_data_buffers().

Analysis revealed that the root cause was the insertion of a page/folio
with a page index of ULONG_MAX into the page cache via the GC ioctl.
filemap_get_folios_tag(), called by nilfs_lookup_dirty_data_buffers(),
repeatedly detects a dirty folio with a page index of ULONG_MAX due to
index wrap-around, leading to duplicate processing of dirty buffers.

As a preparatory step, the GC ioctl loads the page/folio of the block to
be moved during GC and inserts it into the page cache based on information
in the nilfs_vdesc structure passed as an argument.  Normally, this does
not cause issues because the user-space GC library configures the
nilfs_vdesc structure properly.  However, since there is no range check on
the parameters determining the page index, a request with artificially
crafted parameters -- such as those generated by Syzbot -- can result in a
page/folio being inserted with a page index of ULONG_MAX, triggering the
above problem.

This resolves the issue by checking the ranges of 'vd_offset' and
'vd_vblocknr' in the nilfs_vdesc structure that determine the page index,
thereby preventing the invalid page/folio insertions.

Reported-by: [email protected]
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=c37bed40868932d790e9
Fixes: 7942b919f732 ("nilfs2: ioctl operations")
Cc: wuyankun <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <[email protected]>
---
Hi Viacheslav,

Please apply this one.

This fixes the list corruption issue recently detected by syzbot, that
can occur when out-of-range values are intentionally passed to certain
GC ioctl parameters.

Thanks,
Ryusuke Konishi

 fs/nilfs2/ioctl.c | 20 ++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/nilfs2/ioctl.c b/fs/nilfs2/ioctl.c
index b73f2c5d10f0..0957316e58b8 100644
--- a/fs/nilfs2/ioctl.c
+++ b/fs/nilfs2/ioctl.c
@@ -527,6 +527,7 @@ static int nilfs_ioctl_get_bdescs(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp,
  * Return: 0 on success, or one of the following negative error codes on
  * failure:
  * * %-EEXIST	- Block conflict detected.
+ * * %-EINVAL	- Invalid virtual block descriptor.
  * * %-EIO	- I/O error.
  * * %-ENOENT	- Requested block doesn't exist.
  * * %-ENOMEM	- Insufficient memory available.
@@ -536,15 +537,30 @@ static int nilfs_ioctl_move_inode_block(struct inode *inode,
 					struct list_head *buffers)
 {
 	struct buffer_head *bh;
+	__u64 limit_blkidx = (__u64)inode->i_sb->s_maxbytes >> inode->i_blkbits;
 	int ret;
 
-	if (vdesc->vd_flags == 0)
+	/*
+	 * vblocknr 0 is reserved as an invalid pointer.  Also, limit_blkidx
+	 * ensures that the page index converted from vd_vblocknr never
+	 * overflows the page cache limit and respects the architecture's bmap
+	 * key width.
+	 */
+	if (unlikely(vdesc->vd_vblocknr == 0 ||
+			vdesc->vd_vblocknr >= limit_blkidx))
+		return -EINVAL;
+
+	if (vdesc->vd_flags == 0) {
+		if (unlikely(vdesc->vd_offset >= limit_blkidx))
+			return -EINVAL;
+
 		ret = nilfs_gccache_submit_read_data(
 			inode, vdesc->vd_offset, vdesc->vd_blocknr,
 			vdesc->vd_vblocknr, &bh);
-	else
+	} else {
 		ret = nilfs_gccache_submit_read_node(
 			inode, vdesc->vd_blocknr, vdesc->vd_vblocknr, &bh);
+	}
 
 	if (unlikely(ret < 0)) {
 		if (ret == -ENOENT)
-- 
2.43.0