Re: [PATCH] ocfs2: zero-initialize recovery bitmap to prevent uninit-value in find_next_bit

From: Jan Kara

Date: Mon Feb 09 2026 - 13:03:58 EST


On Mon 09-02-26 11:13:47, Daniel Hodges wrote:
> ocfs2_add_recovery_chunk() allocates a bitmap buffer of sb->s_blocksize
> bytes using kmalloc() but only copies (ol_chunk_entries(sb) + 7) >> 3
> bytes into it from the on-disk quota chunk. When the number of chunk
> entries is not aligned to a long boundary (64 bits on 64-bit systems),
> find_next_bit() reads uninitialized memory from the trailing bytes of
> the last word in the bitmap.

OK, but AFAICS it does not impact the functionality in any way because we
properly use:

for_each_set_bit(bit, rchunk->rc_bitmap, ol_chunk_entries(sb))

so the uninitialized bits are actually never used. This would be good to
stress in the changelog. Since this isn't really a performance sensitive
code I agree with the fix to make the checker happy anyway but I wanted to
make sure... So feel free to add:

Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>

Honza

>
> Fix this by using kzalloc() to zero-initialize the entire bitmap
> allocation, ensuring that any bits beyond the copied region are
> clean zeros.
>
> Reported-by: syzbot+7ea0b96c4ddb49fd1a70@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Fixes: 2205363dce74 ("ocfs2: Implement quota recovery")
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Hodges <git@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> fs/ocfs2/quota_local.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/ocfs2/quota_local.c b/fs/ocfs2/quota_local.c
> index de7f12858729..bd3eb098097f 100644
> --- a/fs/ocfs2/quota_local.c
> +++ b/fs/ocfs2/quota_local.c
> @@ -302,7 +302,7 @@ static int ocfs2_add_recovery_chunk(struct super_block *sb,
> if (!rc)
> return -ENOMEM;
> rc->rc_chunk = chunk;
> - rc->rc_bitmap = kmalloc(sb->s_blocksize, GFP_NOFS);
> + rc->rc_bitmap = kzalloc(sb->s_blocksize, GFP_NOFS);
> if (!rc->rc_bitmap) {
> kfree(rc);
> return -ENOMEM;
> --
> 2.52.0
--
Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxxx>
SUSE Labs, CR