Re: [PATCH] ufs: use u64 for directory size in ufs_last_byte
From: Jan Kara
Date: Mon Jul 27 2026 - 07:14:24 EST
On Sat 18-07-26 19:03:07, YANXIN LI wrote:
> ufs1_read_inode() and ufs2_read_inode() copy the untrusted 64-bit
> on-disk size into inode->i_size. ufs_last_byte() then truncates that
> value to an unsigned int before calculating the valid extent of a
> directory folio.
>
> A directory size of exactly 4 GiB is truncated to zero. In
> ufs_find_entry(), subtracting the requested record length from that zero
> forms an endpoint almost 4 GiB beyond the mapped folio. A crafted UFS2
> image produces:
>
> BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in ufs_find_entry+0x583/0x6e0 [ufs]
> Read of size 1
> ...
> ufs_find_entry
> ufs_inode_by_name
> ufs_lookup
> __lookup_slow
> path_lookupat
>
> The KASAN classification reflects that the adjacent physical page was
> free; the source-level operation is an out-of-folio read. A controlled
> UFS1 test with CONFIG_UFS_FS_WRITE enabled also made ufs_find_entry()
> return a directory entry from an adjacent anonymous page. unlink() then
> passed that pointer to ufs_delete_entry(), which cleared the adjacent
> page's 3
> 2-bit d_ino. This write result reproduced three out of three
> times.
>
> UFS normally requires a privileged mount path. A relevant boundary is
> a privileged automounter or image-processing service handling an
> attacker-supplied filesystem. The write primitive additionally requires
> UFS1 to be mounted read-write with CONFIG_UFS_FS_WRITE enabled; the read
> is reachable with read-only UFS2.
>
> Keep the intermediate size arithmetic at 64 bits so non-final pages are
> bounded at PAGE_SIZE. With this change, the same controlled tests reach
> the real on-disk directory entry and produce no adjacent-page write or
> KASAN report. A reproducer and full validation logs are available on
> request.
>
> The vulnerable helper is present in v7.2-rc3, v7.1, v6.18.38, v6.12.95,
> v6.6.111, and upstream master at 1229e2e57a5c. Runtime reproduction and
> fix validation were performed in an x86-64 QEMU guest running v7.2-rc3
> with generic KASAN.
>
> Fixes: b71034e5e67d ("[PATCH] ufs: directory and page cache:
> from blocks to pages")
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: YANXIN LI <fadouse@xxxxx>
Looks good. Feel free to add:
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
Honza
> ---
> fs/ufs/dir.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/ufs/dir.c b/fs/ufs/dir.c
> index e62fe5667..69e6d5535 100644
> --- a/fs/ufs/dir.c
> +++ b/fs/ufs/dir.c
> @@ -213,7 +213,7 @@ static void *ufs_get_folio(struct inode *dir, unsigned long n,
> static unsigned
> ufs_last_byte(struct inode *inode, unsigned long page_nr)
> {
> - unsigned last_byte = inode->i_size;
> + u64 last_byte = inode->i_size;
>
> last_byte -= page_nr << PAGE_SHIFT;
> if (last_byte > PAGE_SIZE)
>
> base-commit: 1229e2e57a5c2980ccd457b9b53ea0eed5a22ab3
> --
> 2.54.0
>
--
Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxxx>
SUSE Labs, CR