Re: [PATCH 2/2] ocfs2: validate DIO orphan slot during inode read
From: Joseph Qi
Date: Tue Aug 04 2026 - 03:37:59 EST
On 8/3/26 11:00 AM, ZhengYuan Huang wrote:
> [BUG]
> A corrupted append-DIO dinode (high byte at offset 0xa1
> corrupted from 0 to 1) can carry an i_dio_orphaned_slot
> outside the mounted filesystem slot range and trigger a
> use-after-free error:
>
> BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in ocfs2_get_system_file_inode+0x780/0x820 fs/ocfs2/sysfile.c:102
> Read of size 8 at addr ffff88800b767c00 by task kworker/u8:3/85
> Call Trace:
> ...
> ocfs2_get_system_file_inode+0x780/0x820 fs/ocfs2/sysfile.c:102
> ocfs2_wipe_inode+0x292/0xf70 fs/ocfs2/inode.c:840
> ocfs2_delete_inode fs/ocfs2/inode.c:1155 [inline]
> ocfs2_evict_inode+0x6c9/0x1170 fs/ocfs2/inode.c:1295
> evict+0x38e/0x8f0 fs/inode.c:810
> iput_final fs/inode.c:1914 [inline]
> iput fs/inode.c:1966 [inline]
> iput+0x55b/0x8b0 fs/inode.c:1926
> ocfs2_recover_orphans+0x610/0xe40 fs/ocfs2/journal.c:2374
> ocfs2_complete_recovery+0x5af/0xd00 fs/ocfs2/journal.c:1373
> ...
>
> [CAUSE]
> ocfs2_del_inode_from_orphan() uses i_dio_orphaned_slot to index the
> slot-local system inode cache. The dinode validator does not check
> this active slot, so an out-of-range value produces an invalid cache
> entry pointer that is dereferenced as an inode pointer.
>
> [FIX]
> Reject an active i_dio_orphaned_slot outside the slot range during
> dinode validation, before DIO orphan recovery can consume it.
>
> Fixes: 06ee5c75b575 ("ocfs2: add functions to add and remove inode in orphan dir")
> Signed-off-by: ZhengYuan Huang <gality369@xxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Joseph Qi <joseph.qi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> fs/ocfs2/inode.c | 8 ++++++++
> 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/fs/ocfs2/inode.c b/fs/ocfs2/inode.c
> index 358ab3535366..180107a11046 100644
> --- a/fs/ocfs2/inode.c
> +++ b/fs/ocfs2/inode.c
> @@ -1536,6 +1536,14 @@ int ocfs2_validate_inode_block(struct super_block *sb,
> goto bail;
> }
>
> + if ((le32_to_cpu(di->i_flags) & OCFS2_DIO_ORPHANED_FL) &&
> + le16_to_cpu(di->i_dio_orphaned_slot) >= OCFS2_SB(sb)->max_slots) {
> + rc = ocfs2_error(sb, "Invalid dinode %llu: DIO orphaned slot %u\n",
> + (unsigned long long)bh->b_blocknr,
> + le16_to_cpu(di->i_dio_orphaned_slot));
> + goto bail;
> + }
> +
> /*
> * Reject dinodes whose i_mode does not name one of the seven
> * canonical POSIX file types. ocfs2_populate_inode() copies