Re: [PATCH v2] ocfs2: fix UBSAN array-index-out-of-bounds in ocfs2_sum_rightmost_rec

From: Joseph Qi

Date: Mon Jun 08 2026 - 05:36:47 EST




On 6/5/26 9:21 PM, Ian Bridges wrote:
> [BUG]
> On-disk corruption setting l_next_free_rec to 0 in an inode's inline
> extent list triggers a UBSAN panic on the next write to that file.

Replace 'inline extent list' here to 'embedded extent list'.
Since 'inline' always means inline data and may cause confuse.

>
> [CAUSE]
> ocfs2_sum_rightmost_rec() computes
> i = le16_to_cpu(el->l_next_free_rec) - 1
> and accesses el->l_recs[i] without validating i. When l_next_free_rec
> is 0, i becomes -1; when l_next_free_rec exceeds l_count, i falls
> past the end of the array. Either case violates the
> __counted_by_le(l_count) annotation on l_recs[] and triggers UBSAN.
>
> [FIX]
> Validate the inode's inline extent list when the inode is read, in
> ocfs2_validate_inode_block(): l_count must be non-zero and no larger
> than the inode block can hold, and l_next_free_rec must not exceed
> l_count. A corrupt list is rejected at read time, before the b-tree
> code can index l_recs[] out of bounds.
>
> Fixes: 2f26f58df041 ("ocfs2: annotate flexible array members with __counted_by_le()")

IMO, commit 2f26f58df041 just expose it as UBSAN. Before it, accessing
l_recs[-1] was silent undefined behavior.
So I don't think it is the right blame commit. Since the logic was
introduced long time ago, so I'd rather just mark it as
"Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" with no "Fixes" tag.

> Reported-by: syzbot+be16e33db01e6644db7a@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=be16e33db01e6644db7a
> Signed-off-by: Ian Bridges <icb@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Changes in v2:
> - Reject the corrupt inode at read time by validating its inline extent
> list (l_count, l_next_free_rec) in ocfs2_validate_inode_block().
>
> v1: https://lore.kernel.org/all/ah2ljwKRw-Xsi4Ga@dev/
>
> fs/ocfs2/inode.c | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 32 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/fs/ocfs2/inode.c b/fs/ocfs2/inode.c
> index a510a0eb1adc..aff95efd78e7 100644
> --- a/fs/ocfs2/inode.c
> +++ b/fs/ocfs2/inode.c
> @@ -1559,6 +1559,38 @@ int ocfs2_validate_inode_block(struct super_block *sb,
> goto bail;
> }
>
> + if (ocfs2_dinode_has_extents(di)) {
> + struct ocfs2_extent_list *el = &di->id2.i_list;
> + u16 count = le16_to_cpu(el->l_count);
> + u16 next_free = le16_to_cpu(el->l_next_free_rec);
> +
> + if (count == 0) {
> + rc = ocfs2_error(sb,
> + "Invalid dinode %llu: extent list l_count is zero\n",
> + (unsigned long long)bh->b_blocknr);
> + goto bail;
> + }
> + /*
> + * The exact capacity depends on i_xattr_inline_size, another
> + * unvalidated on-disk field. Inline xattrs only shrink the
> + * list, so the no-xattr maximum is a safe upper bound that a
> + * valid l_count never exceeds.
> + */
> + if (count > ocfs2_extent_recs_per_inode(sb)) {
> + rc = ocfs2_error(sb,
> + "Invalid dinode %llu: extent list l_count %u exceeds max %u\n",
> + (unsigned long long)bh->b_blocknr, count,
> + ocfs2_extent_recs_per_inode(sb));
> + goto bail;
> + }
> + if (next_free > count) {
> + rc = ocfs2_error(sb,
> + "Invalid dinode %llu: extent list l_next_free_rec %u exceeds l_count %u\n",
> + (unsigned long long)bh->b_blocknr, next_free, count);
> + goto bail;
> + }
> + }
> +
> rc = 0;
>
> bail: