Re: [PATCH 6.1] erofs: Fix the slab-out-of-bounds in drop_buffers()

From: Gao Xiang

Date: Mon Mar 23 2026 - 05:07:00 EST




On 2026/3/23 16:52, Denis Arefev wrote:
No upstream commit exists for this patch.

That is also strange, since people would ask why not submiting a patch
upstream, I think you still need to mention the upstream commit

ce529cc25b184e93397b94a8a322128fc0095cbb
("erofs: enable large folios for iomap mode").

also see another commit in linux 6.1 branch:
1ce9ebc96eda ("erofs: ensure that the post-EOF tails are all zeroed").

Thanks,
Gao Xiang


Syzbot reported that a KASAN slab-out-of-bounds bug was discovered in
the drop_buffers() function [1].

The root cause is that erofs_raw_access_aops does not define .release_folio
and .invalidate_folio. When using iomap-based operations, folio->private
may contain iomap-specific data rather than buffer_heads. Without special
handlers, the kernel may fall back to generic functions (such as
drop_buffers), which incorrectly treat folio->private as a list of
buffer_head structures, leading to incorrect memory interpretation and
out-of-bounds access.

Fix this by explicitly setting .release_folio and .invalidate_folio to the
values of iomap_release_folio and iomap_invalidate_folio, respectively.

[1] https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/report.txt?x=12e5a142580000

Fixes: 7479c505b4ab ("fs: Convert iomap_readpage to iomap_read_folio")
Reported-by: syzbot+5b886a2e03529dbcef81@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?id=c6aeabd0c4ad2466f63a274faf2a123103f8fbf7
Signed-off-by: Denis Arefev <arefev@xxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/erofs/data.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/fs/erofs/data.c b/fs/erofs/data.c
index 7b648bec61fd..302e824827fc 100644
--- a/fs/erofs/data.c
+++ b/fs/erofs/data.c
@@ -406,6 +406,8 @@ const struct address_space_operations erofs_raw_access_aops = {
.readahead = erofs_readahead,
.bmap = erofs_bmap,
.direct_IO = noop_direct_IO,
+ .release_folio = iomap_release_folio,
+ .invalidate_folio = iomap_invalidate_folio,
};
#ifdef CONFIG_FS_DAX