[PATCH] fs/ntfs3: fix out-of-bounds read in read_log_rec_buf()
From: Weiming Shi
Date: Tue Jun 23 2026 - 02:23:26 EST
read_log_rec_buf() copies a log record into a caller buffer starting at
u32 off = lsn_to_page_off(log, lsn) + log->record_header_len;
log->record_header_len (and log->data_off, used for the following pages)
comes verbatim from the on-disk restart area and is only checked for
8-byte alignment in is_rst_area_valid(), so off can exceed
log->page_size. "tail = log->page_size - off" then underflows and
memcpy() reads past the page_size-sized buffer returned by
read_log_page(), spilling adjacent slab memory into the replay buffer.
This is reachable by mounting a crafted NTFS image:
BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in read_log_rec_buf+0x216/0x580
Read of size 64 at addr ffff88800a877ff8 by task exploit/127
read_log_rec_buf fs/ntfs3/fslog.c:2299
log_replay fs/ntfs3/fslog.c:4216
ntfs_loadlog_and_replay fs/ntfs3/fsntfs.c:324
ntfs_fill_super fs/ntfs3/super.c:1392
get_tree_bdev_flags fs/super.c:1694
__x64_sys_mount fs/namespace.c:4360
The buggy address is located 4088 bytes to the right of
the 4096-byte region [ffff88800a876000, ffff88800a877000)
Reject an in-page offset outside the current page before the copy.
Fixes: b46acd6a6a62 ("fs/ntfs3: Add NTFS journal")
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8
Reported-by: Xiang Mei <xmei5@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Weiming Shi <bestswngs@xxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/ntfs3/fslog.c | 10 +++++++++-
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/fs/ntfs3/fslog.c b/fs/ntfs3/fslog.c
index f038c799e7ac..ee413dc80d3a 100644
--- a/fs/ntfs3/fslog.c
+++ b/fs/ntfs3/fslog.c
@@ -2276,7 +2276,15 @@ static int read_log_rec_buf(struct ntfs_log *log,
*/
for (;;) {
bool usa_error;
- u32 tail = log->page_size - off;
+ u32 tail;
+
+ /* off comes from the on-disk restart area; bound it. */
+ if (off >= log->page_size) {
+ err = -EINVAL;
+ goto out;
+ }
+
+ tail = log->page_size - off;
if (tail >= data_len)
tail = data_len;
--
2.43.0