Re: [PATCH v2] ext4: fix BUG_ON() when directory entry has invalid rec_len

From: Luís Henriques
Date: Wed Oct 12 2022 - 09:15:55 EST


Grr, looks like I accidentally reused a 'git send-email' from shell
history which had a '--in-reply-to' in it. Please ignore and sorry about
that. I've just resent a new email.

Cheers,
--
Luís

On Wed, Oct 12, 2022 at 02:13:30PM +0100, Luís Henriques wrote:
> The rec_len field in the directory entry has to be a multiple of 4. A
> corrupted filesystem image can be used to hit a BUG() in
> ext4_rec_len_to_disk(), called from make_indexed_dir().
>
> ------------[ cut here ]------------
> kernel BUG at fs/ext4/ext4.h:2413!
> ...
> RIP: 0010:make_indexed_dir+0x53f/0x5f0
> ...
> Call Trace:
> <TASK>
> ? add_dirent_to_buf+0x1b2/0x200
> ext4_add_entry+0x36e/0x480
> ext4_add_nondir+0x2b/0xc0
> ext4_create+0x163/0x200
> path_openat+0x635/0xe90
> do_filp_open+0xb4/0x160
> ? __create_object.isra.0+0x1de/0x3b0
> ? _raw_spin_unlock+0x12/0x30
> do_sys_openat2+0x91/0x150
> __x64_sys_open+0x6c/0xa0
> do_syscall_64+0x3c/0x80
> entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0
>
> The fix simply adds a call to ext4_check_dir_entry() to validate the
> directory entry, returning -EFSCORRUPTED if the entry is invalid.
>
> CC: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=216540
> Signed-off-by: Luís Henriques <lhenriques@xxxxxxx>
> ---
> * Changes since v1:
>
> As suggested by Ted, I've removed the incorrect 'de->rec_len' check from
> previous version and replaced it with a call to ext4_check_dir_entry()
> instead, which is a much more complete verification.
>
> fs/ext4/namei.c | 10 +++++++++-
> 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/ext4/namei.c b/fs/ext4/namei.c
> index 3a31b662f661..ed76e89ffbe9 100644
> --- a/fs/ext4/namei.c
> +++ b/fs/ext4/namei.c
> @@ -2254,8 +2254,16 @@ static int make_indexed_dir(handle_t *handle, struct ext4_filename *fname,
> memset(de, 0, len); /* wipe old data */
> de = (struct ext4_dir_entry_2 *) data2;
> top = data2 + len;
> - while ((char *)(de2 = ext4_next_entry(de, blocksize)) < top)
> + while ((char *)(de2 = ext4_next_entry(de, blocksize)) < top) {
> + if (ext4_check_dir_entry(dir, NULL, de, bh2, data2, len,
> + (data2 + (blocksize - csum_size) -
> + (char *) de))) {
> + brelse(bh2);
> + brelse(bh);
> + return -EFSCORRUPTED;
> + }
> de = de2;
> + }
> de->rec_len = ext4_rec_len_to_disk(data2 + (blocksize - csum_size) -
> (char *) de, blocksize);
>