[PATCH] jffs2: check jffs2_prealloc_raw_node_refs() result in few other places

From: Fedor Pchelkin
Date: Tue Mar 25 2025 - 12:37:00 EST


Fuzzing hit another invalid pointer dereference due to the lack of
checking whether jffs2_prealloc_raw_node_refs() completed successfully.
Subsequent logic implies that the node refs have been allocated.

Handle that. The code is ready for propagating the error upwards.

KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000008-0x000000000000000f]
CPU: 1 PID: 5835 Comm: syz-executor145 Not tainted 5.10.234-syzkaller #0
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.12.0-1 04/01/2014
RIP: 0010:jffs2_link_node_ref+0xac/0x690 fs/jffs2/nodelist.c:600
Call Trace:
jffs2_mark_erased_block fs/jffs2/erase.c:460 [inline]
jffs2_erase_pending_blocks+0x688/0x1860 fs/jffs2/erase.c:118
jffs2_garbage_collect_pass+0x638/0x1a00 fs/jffs2/gc.c:253
jffs2_reserve_space+0x3f4/0xad0 fs/jffs2/nodemgmt.c:167
jffs2_write_inode_range+0x246/0xb50 fs/jffs2/write.c:362
jffs2_write_end+0x712/0x1110 fs/jffs2/file.c:302
generic_perform_write+0x2c2/0x500 mm/filemap.c:3347
__generic_file_write_iter+0x252/0x610 mm/filemap.c:3465
generic_file_write_iter+0xdb/0x230 mm/filemap.c:3497
call_write_iter include/linux/fs.h:2039 [inline]
do_iter_readv_writev+0x46d/0x750 fs/read_write.c:740
do_iter_write+0x18c/0x710 fs/read_write.c:866
vfs_writev+0x1db/0x6a0 fs/read_write.c:939
do_pwritev fs/read_write.c:1036 [inline]
__do_sys_pwritev fs/read_write.c:1083 [inline]
__se_sys_pwritev fs/read_write.c:1078 [inline]
__x64_sys_pwritev+0x235/0x310 fs/read_write.c:1078
do_syscall_64+0x30/0x40 arch/x86/entry/common.c:46
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x67/0xd1

Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with Syzkaller.

Fixes: 2f785402f39b ("[JFFS2] Reduce visibility of raw_node_ref to upper layers of JFFS2 code.")
Fixes: f560928baa60 ("[JFFS2] Allocate node_ref for wasted space when skipping to page boundary")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Fedor Pchelkin <pchelkin@xxxxxxxxx>
---

Similar to https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mtd/20250307163409.13491-2-a.sadovnikov@xxxxxxxxx/
but touches two remaining places.

fs/jffs2/erase.c | 4 +++-
fs/jffs2/scan.c | 4 +++-
2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/jffs2/erase.c b/fs/jffs2/erase.c
index ef3a1e1b6cb0..fda9f4d6093f 100644
--- a/fs/jffs2/erase.c
+++ b/fs/jffs2/erase.c
@@ -425,7 +425,9 @@ static void jffs2_mark_erased_block(struct jffs2_sb_info *c, struct jffs2_eraseb
.totlen = cpu_to_je32(c->cleanmarker_size)
};

- jffs2_prealloc_raw_node_refs(c, jeb, 1);
+ ret = jffs2_prealloc_raw_node_refs(c, jeb, 1);
+ if (ret)
+ goto filebad;

marker.hdr_crc = cpu_to_je32(crc32(0, &marker, sizeof(struct jffs2_unknown_node)-4));

diff --git a/fs/jffs2/scan.c b/fs/jffs2/scan.c
index 29671e33a171..62879c218d4b 100644
--- a/fs/jffs2/scan.c
+++ b/fs/jffs2/scan.c
@@ -256,7 +256,9 @@ int jffs2_scan_medium(struct jffs2_sb_info *c)

jffs2_dbg(1, "%s(): Skipping %d bytes in nextblock to ensure page alignment\n",
__func__, skip);
- jffs2_prealloc_raw_node_refs(c, c->nextblock, 1);
+ ret = jffs2_prealloc_raw_node_refs(c, c->nextblock, 1);
+ if (ret)
+ goto out;
jffs2_scan_dirty_space(c, c->nextblock, skip);
}
#endif
--
2.49.0