[merged mm-nonmm-stable] ocfs2-validate-rl_used-against-rl_count-in-refcount-block-validator.patch removed from -mm tree
Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Mon, 03 Aug 2026 21:05:22 -0700
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The quilt patch titled
Subject: ocfs2: validate rl_used against rl_count in refcount block validator
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
ocfs2-validate-rl_used-against-rl_count-in-refcount-block-validator.patch
This patch was dropped because it was merged into the mm-nonmm-stable branch
of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
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From: Ibrahim Hashimov <[email protected]>
Subject: ocfs2: validate rl_used against rl_count in refcount block validator
Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2026 15:26:09 +0200
ocfs2_find_refcount_rec_in_rl() walks the on-disk refcount record array
with:
for (; i < le16_to_cpu(rb->rf_records.rl_used); i++) {
rec = &rb->rf_records.rl_recs[i];
...
rl_recs[] lives in a single metadata block (4096 bytes on the common
configuration), so its real capacity is fixed by
ocfs2_refcount_recs_per_rb(sb) (247 records for a 4K block with the
16-byte ocfs2_refcount_rec). rl_used and rl_count are both read directly
off disk by ocfs2_validate_refcount_block() and are never checked against
that capacity, nor against each other, before any refcount/reflink/CoW
operation walks the array.
A crafted (or corrupted) refcount block with rl_used == 0xffff makes the
loop above walk far past the end of the block, dereferencing rl_recs[i]
for i up to 65534. The resulting index is then handed to the sibling
ocfs2_insert_refcount_rec(), whose insert-shift does:
if (index < le16_to_cpu(rf_list->rl_used))
memmove(&rf_list->rl_recs[index + 1],
&rf_list->rl_recs[index],
(le16_to_cpu(rf_list->rl_used) - index) *
sizeof(struct ocfs2_refcount_rec));
i.e. a memmove() of up to (0xffff - index) * 16 bytes (~1 MiB) from an
offset already past the block. This is reachable from an ordinary reflink
(FICLONE) against a crafted/corrupted ocfs2 image: attaching an extent
whose cpos sorts past every real record in the leaf forces the lookup to
run off the end instead of returning early on a match. The attacker model
is local: CAP_SYS_ADMIN mounting a crafted or corrupted ocfs2 image, or a
raw write to the block device backing an already-mounted ocfs2 filesystem.
ocfs2_validate_refcount_block() already validates the block's ECC,
signature, rf_blkno and rf_fs_generation, but never rl_count/rl_used
against the block's actual on-disk capacity. This is the same class of
gap that ocfs2_validate_extent_block() (fs/ocfs2/alloc.c) already closes
for the sibling extent-list header, which checks both the record capacity
and the "used" bound before any code walks h_list.l_recs[]:
if (le16_to_cpu(eb->h_list.l_count) != ocfs2_extent_recs_per_eb(sb)) {
rc = ocfs2_error(...);
goto bail;
}
if (le16_to_cpu(eb->h_list.l_next_free_rec) >
le16_to_cpu(eb->h_list.l_count)) {
rc = ocfs2_error(...);
goto bail;
}
Add the equivalent pair of checks to ocfs2_validate_refcount_block():
reject a refcount block whose rl_count does not match the fixed per-block
capacity returned by ocfs2_refcount_recs_per_rb(), and reject rl_used >
rl_count. Both checks are skipped when OCFS2_REFCOUNT_TREE_FL is set,
because in that case the same union bytes hold an ocfs2_extent_list
(rf_list), not the refcount record list (rf_records) -- that layout is
already validated separately by ocfs2_validate_extent_block() when the
referenced extent block is read. This mirrors the existing
"!(rb->rf_flags & OCFS2_REFCOUNT_TREE_FL)" guard used elsewhere in this
file (e.g. ocfs2_get_refcount_rec()) to decide whether rf_records or
rf_list is the live member of the union.
With this in place, a forged rl_used/rl_count is caught at block
validation time (ocfs2_error()), consistent with every other corruption
check in this function, instead of driving an out-of-bounds read in
ocfs2_find_refcount_rec_in_rl() and a subsequent out-of-bounds memmove()
in ocfs2_insert_refcount_rec().
Verified against a crafted image on a v6.19 KASAN (KASAN_GENERIC) build:
replaying the same reflink (FICLONE) reliably hit a KASAN report in
__ocfs2_increase_refcount()/ocfs2_insert_refcount_rec() before this patch,
and triggers no report once ocfs2_validate_refcount_block() rejects the
forged rl_used/rl_count.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/[email protected]
Fixes: f2c870e3b12e ("ocfs2: Add ocfs2_read_refcount_block.")
Signed-off-by: Ibrahim Hashimov <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Joseph Qi <[email protected]>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <[email protected]>
Cc: Joel Becker <[email protected]>
Cc: Junxiao Bi <[email protected]>
Cc: Changwei Ge <[email protected]>
Cc: Jun Piao <[email protected]>
Cc: Heming Zhao <[email protected]>
Assisted-by: AuditCode-AI:2026.07
Cc: <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
---
fs/ocfs2/refcounttree.c | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 27 insertions(+)
--- a/fs/ocfs2/refcounttree.c~ocfs2-validate-rl_used-against-rl_count-in-refcount-block-validator
+++ a/fs/ocfs2/refcounttree.c
@@ -116,6 +116,33 @@ static int ocfs2_validate_refcount_block
le32_to_cpu(rb->rf_fs_generation));
goto out;
}
+
+ /*
+ * rf_records (rl_count/rl_used/rl_recs[]) is only meaningful when
+ * this block is not an interior tree block (OCFS2_REFCOUNT_TREE_FL);
+ * in that case the same union bytes hold an extent list (rf_list)
+ * instead, which is validated by ocfs2_validate_extent_block().
+ */
+ if (!(le32_to_cpu(rb->rf_flags) & OCFS2_REFCOUNT_TREE_FL)) {
+ if (le16_to_cpu(rb->rf_records.rl_count) !=
+ ocfs2_refcount_recs_per_rb(sb)) {
+ rc = ocfs2_error(sb,
+ "Refcount block #%llu has an invalid rl_count of %u\n",
+ (unsigned long long)bh->b_blocknr,
+ le16_to_cpu(rb->rf_records.rl_count));
+ goto out;
+ }
+
+ if (le16_to_cpu(rb->rf_records.rl_used) >
+ le16_to_cpu(rb->rf_records.rl_count)) {
+ rc = ocfs2_error(sb,
+ "Refcount block #%llu has an invalid rl_used of %u (rl_count %u)\n",
+ (unsigned long long)bh->b_blocknr,
+ le16_to_cpu(rb->rf_records.rl_used),
+ le16_to_cpu(rb->rf_records.rl_count));
+ goto out;
+ }
+ }
out:
return rc;
}
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