Re:[PATCH] ocfs2: validate filecheck inode slots

From: jiale yao

Date: Sat Sep 26 2026 - 10:02:16 EST


At 2026-09-26 21:53:53, "Jiale Yao" <yaojiale02@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>The online filecheck path reads inodes with
>ocfs2_filecheck_validate_inode_block() instead of
>ocfs2_validate_inode_block(). It does not check the slot fields that
>are used as indices into arrays sized by osb->max_slots.
>
>A corrupted dinode can set OCFS2_ORPHANED_FL or
>OCFS2_DIO_ORPHANED_FL while carrying an out-of-range orphan slot. An
>out-of-range i_suballoc_slot can also bypass the normal validator
>through the filecheck path. These values can later be used to index
>the slot-local system inode array.

Reproduced on 7.3-rc4 (x86_64 QEMU, KASAN):

[ 45.942783] BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in ocfs2_evict_inode+0x28f7/0x3ac0
[ 45.942818] Read of size 4 at addr ffff8881
[ 45.942827] Call Trace:
[ 45.942829] dump_stack_lvl+0x2d/0x70
[ 45.942833] print_report+0x175/0x7d0
[ 45.942836] kasan_report+0x139/0x170
[ 45.942839] ocfs2_evict_inode+0x28f7/0x3ac0
[ 45.942840] evict+0x344/0x6e0
[ 45.942842] ? iput+0x45d/0x730
[ 45.942843] ocfs2_filecheck_attr_store+0x96a/0xd30
[ 45.942846] ocfs2_filecheck_store+0x5d/0x90
[ 45.942847] kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x262/0x370
[ 45.942849] vfs_write+0x933/0xcb0
[ 45.942852] ksys_write+0xf2/0x1b0
[ 45.942853] do_syscall_64+0x15b/0x420
[ 45.942856] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe
...
[ 45.942867] Allocated by task 81:
[ 45.942870] __kasan_kmalloc+0x72/0x90
[ 45.942871] __kmalloc_noprof+0x1d2/0x470
[ 45.942875] ocfs2_fill_super+0x195b/0x59f0s, ...)
[ 45.942885] The buggy address is located 4 bytes to the right of
[ 45.942885] allocated 4-byte region [ffff888105f04a40, ffff888105f04a44)
[ 45.942910] Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical
address ... (the pointer read past inode)

>Mirror the normal validator's slot checks in the filecheck validator.
>Reject invalid slots in the repair path as well, since the correct
>slot cannot be recovered.
>
>Fixes: bb88131c9831 ("ocfs2: validate DIO orphan slot during inode read")
>Signed-off-by: Jiale Yao <yaojiale02@xxxxxxx>
>---
> fs/ocfs2/inode.c | 45 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 45 insertions(+)
>
>diff --git a/fs/ocfs2/inode.c b/fs/ocfs2/inode.c
>index 180107a11046..ab82cf9146ef 100644
>--- a/fs/ocfs2/inode.c
>+++ b/fs/ocfs2/inode.c
>@@ -1754,6 +1754,44 @@ int ocfs2_validate_inode_block(struct super_block *sb,
> return rc;
> }
>
>+/*
>+ * Validate the slot fields used as indices into arrays sized by
>+ * osb->max_slots. The filecheck path uses this validator instead of
>+ * ocfs2_validate_inode_block(), so it must enforce the same bounds.
>+ */
>+static int ocfs2_filecheck_validate_slots(struct super_block *sb,
>+ struct ocfs2_dinode *di,
>+ unsigned long long blkno)
>+{
>+ struct ocfs2_super *osb = OCFS2_SB(sb);
>+
>+ if (le16_to_cpu(di->i_suballoc_slot) != (u16)OCFS2_INVALID_SLOT &&
>+ (u32)le16_to_cpu(di->i_suballoc_slot) > osb->max_slots - 1) {
>+ mlog(ML_ERROR,
>+ "Filecheck: invalid dinode #%llu: suballoc slot %u\n",
>+ blkno, le16_to_cpu(di->i_suballoc_slot));
>+ return -OCFS2_FILECHECK_ERR_INVALIDINO;
>+ }
>+
>+ if ((le32_to_cpu(di->i_flags) & OCFS2_ORPHANED_FL) &&
>+ le16_to_cpu(di->i_orphaned_slot) >= osb->max_slots) {
>+ mlog(ML_ERROR,
>+ "Filecheck: invalid dinode #%llu: orphaned slot %u\n",
>+ blkno, le16_to_cpu(di->i_orphaned_slot));
>+ return -OCFS2_FILECHECK_ERR_INVALIDINO;
>+ }
>+
>+ if ((le32_to_cpu(di->i_flags) & OCFS2_DIO_ORPHANED_FL) &&
>+ le16_to_cpu(di->i_dio_orphaned_slot) >= osb->max_slots) {
>+ mlog(ML_ERROR,
>+ "Filecheck: invalid dinode #%llu: DIO orphaned slot %u\n",
>+ blkno, le16_to_cpu(di->i_dio_orphaned_slot));
>+ return -OCFS2_FILECHECK_ERR_INVALIDINO;
>+ }
>+
>+ return 0;
>+}
>+
> static int ocfs2_filecheck_validate_inode_block(struct super_block *sb,
> struct buffer_head *bh)
> {
>@@ -1835,6 +1873,10 @@ static int ocfs2_filecheck_validate_inode_block(struct super_block *sb,
> goto bail;
> }
>
>+ rc = ocfs2_filecheck_validate_slots(sb, di, bh->b_blocknr);
>+ if (rc)
>+ goto bail;
>+
> if (ocfs2_dinode_has_size_without_clusters(sb, di)) {
> if (S_ISDIR(le16_to_cpu(di->i_mode)))
> mlog(ML_ERROR,
>@@ -1893,6 +1935,9 @@ static int ocfs2_filecheck_repair_inode_block(struct super_block *sb,
> return -OCFS2_FILECHECK_ERR_VALIDFLAG;
> }
>
>+ if (ocfs2_filecheck_validate_slots(sb, di, bh->b_blocknr))
>+ return -OCFS2_FILECHECK_ERR_INVALIDINO;
>+
> if (le64_to_cpu(di->i_blkno) != bh->b_blocknr) {
> di->i_blkno = cpu_to_le64(bh->b_blocknr);
> changed = 1;
>--
>2.34.1