[PATCH v2 1/2] ocfs2: bound-check dir entries in the readdir re-validation scan

From: Zhan Xusheng

Date: Mon Aug 10 2026 - 22:44:12 EST


When the inode version changed since the last readdir(),
ocfs2_dir_foreach_blk_el() re-scans the directory block from its start to
relocate the current position:

for (i = 0; i < sb->s_blocksize && i < offset; ) {
de = (struct ocfs2_dir_entry *)(bh->b_data + i);
if (le16_to_cpu(de->rec_len) < OCFS2_DIR_REC_LEN(1))
break;
i += le16_to_cpu(de->rec_len);
}

i walks the block on rec_len values taken from the block itself and the
only thing tested is that rec_len is not too small, so a single bogus
rec_len
leaves i anywhere in the block, including its last OCFS2_DIR_REC_LEN(1) - 1
bytes. @offset comes from ctx->pos, which userspace moves with lseek() on
the directory fd, and decides how far the walk gets.

Two bounds are missing, both of which ocfs2_check_dir_entry() applies for
the emit loop below.

de->rec_len sits at byte offset 8 within the entry, so dereferencing de in
that tail reads past the s_blocksize buffer. ocfs2_check_dir_entry()
declines to look at an entry that close to the end:

size - buf_offset < OCFS2_DIR_REC_LEN(1)

Nothing bounds i += rec_len either, so i can end up past the block. The
emit loop that follows is guarded by offset < sb->s_blocksize and does not
run, but

offset = i;
ctx->pos = (ctx->pos & ~((loff_t)sb->s_blocksize - 1)) | offset;

runs first and ORs a value with bits above the block mask into ctx->pos,
corrupting the block number readdir() resumes from.
ocfs2_check_dir_entry() rejects that as "directory entry overrun":

next_offset = buf_offset + rlen;
... next_offset > size

Apply both bounds. For a consistent directory this changes nothing:
entries are at least OCFS2_DIR_REC_LEN(1) bytes and do not cross the end of
the block, so no valid entry is skipped.

Found by the sashiko review tool; fix approach suggested by Joseph Qi.

Link: https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260806022044.167962-1-zhanxusheng@xxxxxxxxxx
Suggested-by: Joseph Qi <joseph.qi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mark@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Junxiao Bi <junxiao.bi@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Changwei Ge <gechangwei@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Jun Piao <piaojun@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Heming Zhao <heming.zhao@xxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Zhan Xusheng <zhanxusheng@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/ocfs2/dir.c | 12 ++++++++----
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/ocfs2/dir.c b/fs/ocfs2/dir.c
index c30a86856d5b..39ce60874e17 100644
--- a/fs/ocfs2/dir.c
+++ b/fs/ocfs2/dir.c
@@ -1903,7 +1903,10 @@ static int ocfs2_dir_foreach_blk_el(struct inode *inode,
* dirent right now. Scan from the start of the block
* to make sure. */
if (!inode_eq_iversion(inode, *f_version)) {
- for (i = 0; i < sb->s_blocksize && i < offset; ) {
+ for (i = 0; i + OCFS2_DIR_REC_LEN(1) <= sb->s_blocksize &&
+ i < offset;) {
+ unsigned int rec_len;
+
de = (struct ocfs2_dir_entry *) (bh->b_data + i);
/* It's too expensive to do a full
* dirent test each time round this
@@ -1911,10 +1914,11 @@ static int ocfs2_dir_foreach_blk_el(struct inode *inode,
* least that it is non-zero. A
* failure will be detected in the
* dirent test below. */
- if (le16_to_cpu(de->rec_len) <
- OCFS2_DIR_REC_LEN(1))
+ rec_len = le16_to_cpu(de->rec_len);
+ if (rec_len < OCFS2_DIR_REC_LEN(1) ||
+ i + rec_len > sb->s_blocksize)
break;
- i += le16_to_cpu(de->rec_len);
+ i += rec_len;
}
offset = i;
ctx->pos = (ctx->pos & ~((loff_t)sb->s_blocksize - 1))
--
2.43.0