Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] ocfs2: bound-check dir entries in the inline-data re-validation scan
From: Joseph Qi
Date: Tue Aug 11 2026 - 03:12:47 EST
On 8/11/26 10:43 AM, Zhan Xusheng wrote:
> ocfs2_dir_foreach_blk_id() re-scans the inline data area the same way
> ocfs2_dir_foreach_blk_el() re-scans a directory block, and is missing the
> same two bounds:
>
> for (i = 0; i < i_size_read(inode) && i < offset; ) {
> de = (struct ocfs2_dir_entry *)(data->id_data + i);
> if (le16_to_cpu(de->rec_len) < OCFS2_DIR_REC_LEN(1))
> break;
> i += le16_to_cpu(de->rec_len);
> }
>
> ocfs2_validate_inode_block() keeps i_size inside the inline area:
>
> if (le16_to_cpu(data->id_count) >
> ocfs2_max_inline_data_with_xattr(sb, di))
> if (le64_to_cpu(di->i_size) > le16_to_cpu(data->id_count))
>
> and that area runs to the end of the inode block, so for a full inline
> directory data->id_data + i_size is the end of di_bh->b_data. A bogus
> rec_len leaves i in the last OCFS2_DIR_REC_LEN(1) - 1 bytes of it, and
> de->rec_len, at byte offset 8 within the entry, is then read past the
> block.
>
> The emit loop below hands i_size_read(inode) to ocfs2_check_dir_entry(),
> which refuses both an entry that close to the end and one whose rec_len
> runs past it. Apply the same two bounds to the re-validation scan, reading
> i_size once into a local as ocfs2_check_dir_entry() takes it as @size.
>
> Unlike the extent case there is no mask to corrupt here: an unbounded i
> only sets ctx->pos past i_size, which ends the readdir early rather
> than moving it to the wrong place.
>
> 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>
Looks fine.
Reviewed-by: Joseph Qi <joseph.qi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> fs/ocfs2/dir.c | 14 ++++++++++----
> 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/ocfs2/dir.c b/fs/ocfs2/dir.c
> index 39ce60874e17..863c69dec7da 100644
> --- a/fs/ocfs2/dir.c
> +++ b/fs/ocfs2/dir.c
> @@ -1812,7 +1812,12 @@ static int ocfs2_dir_foreach_blk_id(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 < i_size_read(inode) && i < offset; ) {
> + loff_t size = i_size_read(inode);
> +
> + for (i = 0; i + OCFS2_DIR_REC_LEN(1) <= size &&
> + i < offset;) {
> + unsigned int rec_len;
> +
> de = (struct ocfs2_dir_entry *)
> (data->id_data + i);
> /* It's too expensive to do a full
> @@ -1821,10 +1826,11 @@ static int ocfs2_dir_foreach_blk_id(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 > size)
> break;
> - i += le16_to_cpu(de->rec_len);
> + i += rec_len;
> }
> ctx->pos = offset = i;
> *f_version = inode_query_iversion(inode);