[PATCH] ntfs3: check split point bounds before copying the split entry

From: Andrey Misiurov

Date: Tue Oct 06 2026 - 09:13:49 EST


indx_insert_into_buffer() copies the split entry before checking that
its on-disk size fits in the index buffer. A crafted image makes the
copy read past the end of the buffer:

BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in indx_insert_into_buffer+0x49c/0x1310 [ntfs3]
Read of size 4352 at addr ffff888172fcc760 by task touch/970
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 970 Comm: touch Not tainted 6.12.88+deb13-amd64 #1
Call Trace:
<TASK>
dump_stack_lvl+0x110/0x1a0
print_report+0x237/0x77f
kasan_report+0xdc/0x140
kasan_check_range+0x30f/0x350
__asan_memcpy+0x33/0xb0
indx_insert_into_buffer+0x49c/0x1310 [ntfs3]
indx_insert_entry+0x14b/0x480 [ntfs3]
ntfs_create_inode+0x2016/0x4b20 [ntfs3]
</TASK>

Allocated by task 970:
__kmalloc_noprof+0x349/0x6c0
indx_read+0x75c/0xc20 [ntfs3]

The buggy address belongs to the cache kmalloc-4k of size 4096
The buggy address is located 1888 bytes inside of that object

Do the check before the allocation and the copy.

Fixes: 82cae269cfa9 ("fs/ntfs3: Add initialization of super block")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Andrey Misiurov <andrey.misyrov@xxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/ntfs3/index.c | 20 ++++++++++----------
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/ntfs3/index.c b/fs/ntfs3/index.c
--- a/fs/ntfs3/index.c
+++ b/fs/ntfs3/index.c
@@ -1899,12 +1899,6 @@
return -EINVAL;

sp_size = le16_to_cpu(sp->size);
- up_e = kmalloc(sp_size + sizeof(u64), GFP_NOFS);
- if (!up_e)
- return -ENOMEM;
- memcpy(up_e, sp, sp_size);
-
- /* Make a copy for undo. */
used1 = le32_to_cpu(hdr1->used);

/*
@@ -1913,13 +1907,19 @@
* that (PtrOffset(hdr1, sp) + sp_size) exceeds used1. Without this
* guard the u32 'used = used1 - to_copy - sp_size' underflows and
* the subsequent memmove count becomes a near-4-GiB value,
- * triggering an out-of-bounds kernel write.
+ * triggering an out-of-bounds kernel write. The memcpy below also
+ * reads sp_size bytes starting at sp, so the check has to happen
+ * before it.
*/
- if (PtrOffset(hdr1, sp) + sp_size > used1) {
- err = -EINVAL;
- goto out;
- }
+ if (PtrOffset(hdr1, sp) + sp_size > used1)
+ return -EINVAL;

+ up_e = kmalloc(sp_size + sizeof(u64), GFP_NOFS);
+ if (!up_e)
+ return -ENOMEM;
+ memcpy(up_e, sp, sp_size);
+
+ /* Make a copy for undo. */
hdr1_saved = kmemdup(hdr1, used1, GFP_NOFS);
if (!hdr1_saved) {
err = -ENOMEM;