[PATCH v2] efivarfs: Fix slab-out-of-bounds in efivarfs_d_compare

From: linan666
Date: Tue Aug 19 2025 - 05:19:04 EST


From: Li Nan <linan122@xxxxxxxxxx>

Observed on kernel 6.6 (present on master as well):

BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in memcmp+0x98/0xd0
Call trace:
kasan_check_range+0xe8/0x190
__asan_loadN+0x1c/0x28
memcmp+0x98/0xd0
efivarfs_d_compare+0x68/0xd8
__d_lookup_rcu_op_compare+0x178/0x218
__d_lookup_rcu+0x1f8/0x228
d_alloc_parallel+0x150/0x648
lookup_open.isra.0+0x5f0/0x8d0
open_last_lookups+0x264/0x828
path_openat+0x130/0x3f8
do_filp_open+0x114/0x248
do_sys_openat2+0x340/0x3c0
__arm64_sys_openat+0x120/0x1a0

If dentry->d_name.len < EFI_VARIABLE_GUID_LEN , 'guid' can become
negative, leadings to oob. The issue can be triggered as below:

T1 T2
lookup_open
->lookup
simple_lookup
d_add
// invalid dentry is added to hash list

lookup_open
d_alloc_parallel
__d_lookup_rcu
__d_lookup_rcu_op_compare
hlist_bl_for_each_entry_rcu
// invalid dentry can be retrieved
->d_compare
efivarfs_d_compare

Fix it by checking len before cmp.

Fixes: da27a24383b2 ("efivarfs: guid part of filenames are case-insensitive")
Signed-off-by: Li Nan <linan122@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Wu Guanghao <wuguanghao3@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
v2: optimize commit message

fs/efivarfs/super.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/efivarfs/super.c b/fs/efivarfs/super.c
index 23ff4e873651..c30d758e303a 100644
--- a/fs/efivarfs/super.c
+++ b/fs/efivarfs/super.c
@@ -152,7 +152,7 @@ static int efivarfs_d_compare(const struct dentry *dentry,
{
int guid = len - EFI_VARIABLE_GUID_LEN;

- if (name->len != len)
+ if (name->len != len || len <= EFI_VARIABLE_GUID_LEN)
return 1;

/* Case-sensitive compare for the variable name */
--
2.39.2