[PATCH v3] exfat: fix out-of-bounds in exfat_nls_to_ucs2()

From: Jeongjun Park

Date: Mon Oct 13 2025 - 09:47:27 EST


Since the len argument value passed to exfat_ioctl_set_volume_label()
from exfat_nls_to_utf16() is passed 1 too large, an out-of-bounds read
occurs when dereferencing p_cstring in exfat_nls_to_ucs2() later.

And because of the NLS_NAME_OVERLEN macro, another error occurs when
creating a file with a period at the end using utf8 and other iocharsets,
so the NLS_NAME_OVERLEN macro should be removed and the len argument value
should be passed as FSLABEL_MAX - 1.

Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: syzbot+98cc76a76de46b3714d4@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=98cc76a76de46b3714d4
Fixes: 370e812b3ec1 ("exfat: add nls operations")
Signed-off-by: Jeongjun Park <aha310510@xxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/exfat/file.c | 2 +-
fs/exfat/nls.c | 3 ---
2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/exfat/file.c b/fs/exfat/file.c
index f246cf439588..7ce0fb6f2564 100644
--- a/fs/exfat/file.c
+++ b/fs/exfat/file.c
@@ -521,7 +521,7 @@ static int exfat_ioctl_set_volume_label(struct super_block *sb,

memset(&uniname, 0, sizeof(uniname));
if (label[0]) {
- ret = exfat_nls_to_utf16(sb, label, FSLABEL_MAX,
+ ret = exfat_nls_to_utf16(sb, label, FSLABEL_MAX - 1,
&uniname, &lossy);
if (ret < 0)
return ret;
diff --git a/fs/exfat/nls.c b/fs/exfat/nls.c
index 8243d94ceaf4..57db08a5271c 100644
--- a/fs/exfat/nls.c
+++ b/fs/exfat/nls.c
@@ -616,9 +616,6 @@ static int exfat_nls_to_ucs2(struct super_block *sb,
unilen++;
}

- if (p_cstring[i] != '\0')
- lossy |= NLS_NAME_OVERLEN;
-
*uniname = '\0';
p_uniname->name_len = unilen;
p_uniname->name_hash = exfat_calc_chksum16(upname, unilen << 1, 0,
--