[PATCH ntfs3] fs/ntfs3: validate EA entry layout against ef->size in ntfs_read_ea

From: Xiang Mei

Date: Fri Jul 03 2026 - 18:23:46 EST


In ntfs_read_ea(), the ef->size branch only checks that the declared
entry size fits the remaining buffer; unlike the zero-size branch it
never verifies that the entry's own name and value fit inside ef->size.
A crafted image can thus present an in-bounds ef->size with an arbitrary
elength, which find_ea()/ntfs_get_ea() later use as the memcpy length,
reading past the allocation and leaking adjacent heap memory:

BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in ntfs_get_ea (fs/ntfs3/xattr.c:302)
Read of size 65535 at addr ffff888010770b0f by task exploit/142
...
__asan_memcpy (mm/kasan/shadow.c:105)
ntfs_get_ea (fs/ntfs3/xattr.c:302)
ntfs_getxattr (fs/ntfs3/xattr.c:848)
__vfs_getxattr (fs/xattr.c:446)
vfs_getxattr (fs/xattr.c:479)
do_getxattr (fs/xattr.c:808)
filename_getxattr (fs/xattr.c:837)
path_getxattrat (fs/xattr.c:876)
do_syscall_64 (arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94)
...
The buggy address is located 15 bytes inside of
allocated 20-byte region, cache kmalloc-32

Validate the name/value layout in the ef->size branch too, bounding it
against ef->size, as the zero-size branch validates it against the
buffer.

Fixes: be71b5cba2e6 ("fs/ntfs3: Add attrib operations")
Reported-by: Weiming Shi <bestswngs@xxxxxxxxx>
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8
Signed-off-by: Xiang Mei <xmei5@xxxxxxx>
---
fs/ntfs3/xattr.c | 5 +++++
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/fs/ntfs3/xattr.c b/fs/ntfs3/xattr.c
index 04814dd29375..259d7f53b77b 100644
--- a/fs/ntfs3/xattr.c
+++ b/fs/ntfs3/xattr.c
@@ -155,6 +155,11 @@ static int ntfs_read_ea(struct ntfs_inode *ni, struct EA_FULL **ea,
ea_size = le32_to_cpu(ef->size);
if (ea_size > bytes)
goto out1;
+ if (bytes < offsetof(struct EA_FULL, name))
+ goto out1;
+ if (struct_size(ef, name, 1 + ef->name_len +
+ le16_to_cpu(ef->elength)) > ea_size)
+ goto out1;
continue;
}

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