[PATCH v2] ubifs: fix host inode TNC offset when deleting an xattr

From: Nan Lin

Date: Tue Oct 13 2026 - 01:38:44 EST


ubifs_jnl_delete_xattr() writes a group of three nodes: the xent, the
xattr inode and the host inode. The host inode is packed at
xent_offs + aligned_xlen + UBIFS_INO_NODE_SZ, but its TNC position is
computed backwards as xent_offs + len - hlen. Since len includes the
group's tail padding, ALIGN(hlen, 8) - hlen, the two differ whenever
the host inode's inline data length is not a multiple of 8. This
affects symlinks and device nodes.

The unaligned offset ends up in the on-flash index and the next mount
rejects the index node, turning the filesystem read-only.

Fixes: 1e51764a3c2a ("UBIFS: add new flash file system")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Tested-by: Zhihao Cheng <chengzhihao1@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Nan Lin <lin.nan@xxxxxxx>

Changes since v1:
- compute the host inode offset into a new host_offs variable instead
of open-coding the offset (Richard Weinberger);
- shorten the commit message.

---
fs/ubifs/journal.c | 7 +++++--
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/ubifs/journal.c b/fs/ubifs/journal.c
index 40a95a2fad50..0b2dae57e467 100644
--- a/fs/ubifs/journal.c
+++ b/fs/ubifs/journal.c
@@ -1858,7 +1858,8 @@ int ubifs_jnl_delete_xattr(struct ubifs_info *c, const struct inode *host,
const struct inode *inode,
const struct fscrypt_name *nm)
{
- int err, xlen, hlen, len, lnum, xent_offs, aligned_xlen, write_len;
+ int err, xlen, hlen, len, lnum, xent_offs, host_offs, aligned_xlen,
+ write_len;
struct ubifs_dent_node *xent;
struct ubifs_ino_node *ino;
union ubifs_key xent_key, key1, key2;
@@ -1915,6 +1916,8 @@ int ubifs_jnl_delete_xattr(struct ubifs_info *c, const struct inode *host,
ubifs_wbuf_add_ino_nolock(&c->jheads[BASEHD].wbuf, host->i_ino);
release_head(c, BASEHD);

+ host_offs = xent_offs + aligned_xlen + UBIFS_INO_NODE_SZ;
+
ubifs_add_auth_dirt(c, lnum);
kfree(xent);
if (err)
@@ -1943,7 +1946,7 @@ int ubifs_jnl_delete_xattr(struct ubifs_info *c, const struct inode *host,

/* And update TNC with the new host inode position */
ino_key_init(c, &key1, host->i_ino);
- err = ubifs_tnc_add(c, &key1, lnum, xent_offs + len - hlen, hlen, hash);
+ err = ubifs_tnc_add(c, &key1, lnum, host_offs, hlen, hash);
if (err)
goto out_ro;

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2.33.0