[PATCH] nilfs2: prevent out-of-bounds read in super root block parsing
Ryusuke Konishi <[email protected]> Sat, 18 Jul 2026 01:56:21 +0900
| Newsgroups | org.kernel.vger.linux-nilfs,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel |
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From: David Lee <[email protected]> super-root inode metadata size is trusted before nilfs_read_inode_common(). Reject super-root inode sizes whose computed on-disk footprint exceeds the filesystem block size. This prevents malformed filesystem images from making nilfs_read_inode_common() read past the end of the super-root block. [ryusuke: clarify the commit title] Fixes: 8a9d2191e9f4 ("nilfs2: operations for the_nilfs core object") Signed-off-by: David Lee <[email protected]> Assisted-by: Codex:gpt-5.5 Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <[email protected]> --- Hi Viacheslav, please apply this for the next cycle. As described, this prevents out-of-bounds memory access that could occur with a tampered file system image. Thanks, Ryusuke Konishi fs/nilfs2/the_nilfs.c | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/fs/nilfs2/the_nilfs.c b/fs/nilfs2/the_nilfs.c index 7b23e373a106..f3805e7aabeb 100644 --- a/fs/nilfs2/the_nilfs.c +++ b/fs/nilfs2/the_nilfs.c @@ -461,6 +461,12 @@ static int nilfs_store_disk_layout(struct the_nilfs *nilfs, nilfs->ns_inode_size); return -EINVAL; } + if (NILFS_SR_BYTES(nilfs->ns_inode_size) > nilfs->ns_blocksize) { + nilfs_err(nilfs->ns_sb, + "too large inode size for super root: %d bytes", + nilfs->ns_inode_size); + return -EINVAL; + } nilfs->ns_first_ino = le32_to_cpu(sbp->s_first_ino); if (nilfs->ns_first_ino < NILFS_USER_INO) { -- 2.43.0