[PATCH v2] f2fs: reject invalid recovered filename lengths

From: Wenjie Qi

Date: Mon Aug 03 2026 - 07:49:22 EST


Recovery uses raw_inode->i_namelen directly when rebuilding fsynced
dentries. A zero-length name uses no dentry slots, so recovery can
report success without recreating the dentry.

Treat zero-length and oversized recovered names as corruption, mark
NEED_FSCK, and stop recovery with -EFSCORRUPTED.

Signed-off-by: Wenjie Qi <qiwenjie@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
v2:
- add unlikely() to the invalid recovered filename length check
- move the invalid-length corruption handling into init_recovered_filename()

fs/f2fs/recovery.c | 14 +++++++++++---
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/f2fs/recovery.c b/fs/f2fs/recovery.c
index 89af8407b667..268b00536869 100644
--- a/fs/f2fs/recovery.c
+++ b/fs/f2fs/recovery.c
@@ -116,18 +116,26 @@ static void del_fsync_inode(struct fsync_inode_entry *entry, int drop)
}

static int init_recovered_filename(const struct inode *dir,
+ struct inode *inode,
struct f2fs_inode *raw_inode,
struct f2fs_filename *fname,
struct qstr *usr_fname)
{
+ struct f2fs_sb_info *sbi = F2FS_I_SB(inode);
int err;

memset(fname, 0, sizeof(*fname));
fname->disk_name.len = le32_to_cpu(raw_inode->i_namelen);
fname->disk_name.name = raw_inode->i_name;

- if (WARN_ON(fname->disk_name.len > F2FS_NAME_LEN))
- return -ENAMETOOLONG;
+ if (unlikely(!fname->disk_name.len ||
+ fname->disk_name.len > F2FS_NAME_LEN)) {
+ f2fs_err(sbi, "invalid recovered filename length %u for ino %llu",
+ fname->disk_name.len, inode->i_ino);
+ set_sbi_flag(sbi, SBI_NEED_FSCK);
+ f2fs_handle_error(sbi, ERROR_CORRUPTED_INODE);
+ return -EFSCORRUPTED;
+ }

if (!IS_ENCRYPTED(dir)) {
usr_fname->name = fname->disk_name.name;
@@ -184,7 +192,7 @@ static int recover_dentry(struct inode *inode, struct folio *ifolio,
}

dir = entry->inode;
- err = init_recovered_filename(dir, raw_inode, &fname, &usr_fname);
+ err = init_recovered_filename(dir, inode, raw_inode, &fname, &usr_fname);
if (err)
goto out;
retry:
--
2.43.0