[PATCH v3] ocfs2: fix UBSAN array-index-out-of-bounds in ocfs2_sum_rightmost_rec

From: Ian Bridges

Date: Mon Jun 08 2026 - 10:10:18 EST


[BUG]
On-disk corruption setting l_next_free_rec to 0 in an inode's inline
extent list triggers an UBSAN panic on the next write to that file.

[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.

Reported-by: syzbot+be16e33db01e6644db7a@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=be16e33db01e6644db7a
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Ian Bridges <icb@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Changes in v3:
- Update commit message to use "inline" instead of "embedded"
- CC stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

v2: https://lore.kernel.org/all/aiLNd9gAuCC5u2jf@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:
--
2.47.3