[PATCH] nilfs2: reject invalid block index in GC ioctl

From: Ryusuke Konishi

Date: Thu Jul 02 2026 - 12:24:44 EST


Syzbot reported list corruption caused by a double list_add_tail() call on
bh->b_assoc_buffers within nilfs_lookup_dirty_data_buffers().

Analysis revealed that the root cause was the insertion of a page/folio
with a page index of ULONG_MAX into the page cache via the GC ioctl.
filemap_get_folios_tag(), called by nilfs_lookup_dirty_data_buffers(),
repeatedly detects a dirty folio with a page index of ULONG_MAX due to
index wrap-around, leading to duplicate processing of dirty buffers.

As a preparatory step, the GC ioctl loads the page/folio of the block to
be moved during GC and inserts it into the page cache based on information
in the nilfs_vdesc structure passed as an argument. Normally, this does
not cause issues because the user-space GC library configures the
nilfs_vdesc structure properly. However, since there is no range check on
the parameters determining the page index, a request with artificially
crafted parameters -- such as those generated by Syzbot -- can result in a
page/folio being inserted with a page index of ULONG_MAX, triggering the
above problem.

This resolves the issue by checking the ranges of 'vd_offset' and
'vd_vblocknr' in the nilfs_vdesc structure that determine the page index,
thereby preventing the invalid page/folio insertions.

Reported-by: syzbot+c37bed40868932d790e9@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=c37bed40868932d790e9
Fixes: 7942b919f732 ("nilfs2: ioctl operations")
Cc: wuyankun <wuyankun@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@xxxxxxxxx>
---
Hi Viacheslav,

Please apply this one.

This fixes the list corruption issue recently detected by syzbot, that
can occur when out-of-range values are intentionally passed to certain
GC ioctl parameters.

Thanks,
Ryusuke Konishi

fs/nilfs2/ioctl.c | 20 ++++++++++++++++++--
1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/nilfs2/ioctl.c b/fs/nilfs2/ioctl.c
index b73f2c5d10f0..0957316e58b8 100644
--- a/fs/nilfs2/ioctl.c
+++ b/fs/nilfs2/ioctl.c
@@ -527,6 +527,7 @@ static int nilfs_ioctl_get_bdescs(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp,
* Return: 0 on success, or one of the following negative error codes on
* failure:
* * %-EEXIST - Block conflict detected.
+ * * %-EINVAL - Invalid virtual block descriptor.
* * %-EIO - I/O error.
* * %-ENOENT - Requested block doesn't exist.
* * %-ENOMEM - Insufficient memory available.
@@ -536,15 +537,30 @@ static int nilfs_ioctl_move_inode_block(struct inode *inode,
struct list_head *buffers)
{
struct buffer_head *bh;
+ __u64 limit_blkidx = (__u64)inode->i_sb->s_maxbytes >> inode->i_blkbits;
int ret;

- if (vdesc->vd_flags == 0)
+ /*
+ * vblocknr 0 is reserved as an invalid pointer. Also, limit_blkidx
+ * ensures that the page index converted from vd_vblocknr never
+ * overflows the page cache limit and respects the architecture's bmap
+ * key width.
+ */
+ if (unlikely(vdesc->vd_vblocknr == 0 ||
+ vdesc->vd_vblocknr >= limit_blkidx))
+ return -EINVAL;
+
+ if (vdesc->vd_flags == 0) {
+ if (unlikely(vdesc->vd_offset >= limit_blkidx))
+ return -EINVAL;
+
ret = nilfs_gccache_submit_read_data(
inode, vdesc->vd_offset, vdesc->vd_blocknr,
vdesc->vd_vblocknr, &bh);
- else
+ } else {
ret = nilfs_gccache_submit_read_node(
inode, vdesc->vd_blocknr, vdesc->vd_vblocknr, &bh);
+ }

if (unlikely(ret < 0)) {
if (ret == -ENOENT)
--
2.43.0