[PATCH] hfsplus: validate B-tree record offset table
From: Jiaming Zhang
Date: Wed Jul 01 2026 - 01:53:22 EST
A crafted HFS+ image can contain a corrupted B-tree node. The node descriptor
may contain a record count that does not fit in the node, and record offsets may
be unordered, unaligned, outside the node, or point into the offset table
itself.
Several B-tree helpers consume these on-disk fields before validating them:
hfs_bnode_dump() can walk past the offset table when num_recs is corrupted,
hfs_brec_lenoff() can produce an underflowed length or a record range that
overlaps the offset table. This can make the unlink/writeback path repeatedly
call hfs_bnode_read_u16() with invalid offsets while holding the HFS+ B-tree
lock, producing a flood of "requested invalid offset" messages. Other writeback
workers then block on tree->tree_lock and the system reports tasks hung in
hfsplus_write_inode().
Reject corrupted B-tree metadata earlier: validate num_recs against the node
size before walking the record offset table, reject record offsets that are
unordered, unaligned, outside the node, or overlapping the offset table, stop
B-tree record walkers on invalid records, and avoid decrementing an already-zero
leaf_count.
Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CANypQFb_2TqKGrztAXj5m0_v+QChxXDnQVeifzV8J25Vuju10Q@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
Assisted-by: Codex:gpt-5.5-xhigh
Signed-off-by: Jiaming Zhang <r772577952@xxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/hfsplus/bfind.c | 12 +++++++++---
fs/hfsplus/bnode.c | 15 +++++++++++++--
fs/hfsplus/brec.c | 35 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
fs/hfsplus/hfsplus_fs.h | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
4 files changed, 70 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/hfsplus/bfind.c b/fs/hfsplus/bfind.c
index 9a55fa6d5294..ace9ba027a9d 100644
--- a/fs/hfsplus/bfind.c
+++ b/fs/hfsplus/bfind.c
@@ -112,11 +112,13 @@ int __hfs_brec_find(struct hfs_bnode *bnode, struct hfs_find_data *fd,
b = 0;
e = bnode->num_recs - 1;
res = -ENOENT;
+ if (!bnode->num_recs)
+ return res;
do {
rec = (e + b) / 2;
len = hfs_brec_lenoff(bnode, rec, &off);
keylen = hfs_brec_keylen(bnode, rec);
- if (keylen == 0) {
+ if (!keylen || keylen >= len) {
res = -EINVAL;
goto fail;
}
@@ -130,7 +132,7 @@ int __hfs_brec_find(struct hfs_bnode *bnode, struct hfs_find_data *fd,
if (rec != e && e >= 0) {
len = hfs_brec_lenoff(bnode, e, &off);
keylen = hfs_brec_keylen(bnode, e);
- if (keylen == 0) {
+ if (!keylen || keylen >= len) {
res = -EINVAL;
goto fail;
}
@@ -232,6 +234,10 @@ int hfs_brec_goto(struct hfs_find_data *fd, int cnt)
bnode = fd->bnode;
tree = bnode->tree;
+ if (!bnode->num_recs) {
+ res = -ENOENT;
+ goto out;
+ }
if (cnt < 0) {
cnt = -cnt;
@@ -274,7 +280,7 @@ int hfs_brec_goto(struct hfs_find_data *fd, int cnt)
len = hfs_brec_lenoff(bnode, fd->record, &off);
keylen = hfs_brec_keylen(bnode, fd->record);
- if (keylen == 0) {
+ if (!keylen || keylen >= len) {
res = -EINVAL;
goto out;
}
diff --git a/fs/hfsplus/bnode.c b/fs/hfsplus/bnode.c
index d088fb7eb0df..df406f75a5b3 100644
--- a/fs/hfsplus/bnode.c
+++ b/fs/hfsplus/bnode.c
@@ -352,15 +352,22 @@ void hfs_bnode_dump(struct hfs_bnode *node)
struct hfs_bnode_desc desc;
__be32 cnid;
int i, off, key_off;
+ u16 num_recs;
hfs_dbg("node %d\n", node->this);
hfs_bnode_read(node, &desc, 0, sizeof(desc));
+ num_recs = be16_to_cpu(desc.num_recs);
hfs_dbg("next %d, prev %d, type %d, height %d, num_recs %d\n",
be32_to_cpu(desc.next), be32_to_cpu(desc.prev),
- desc.type, desc.height, be16_to_cpu(desc.num_recs));
+ desc.type, desc.height, num_recs);
+
+ if (!hfs_bnode_num_recs_valid(node, num_recs)) {
+ hfs_dbg("invalid num_recs %u\n", num_recs);
+ return;
+ }
off = node->tree->node_size - 2;
- for (i = be16_to_cpu(desc.num_recs); i >= 0; off -= 2, i--) {
+ for (i = num_recs; i >= 0; off -= 2, i--) {
key_off = hfs_bnode_read_u16(node, off);
hfs_dbg(" key_off %d", key_off);
if (i && node->type == HFS_NODE_INDEX) {
@@ -579,6 +586,9 @@ struct hfs_bnode *hfs_bnode_find(struct hfs_btree *tree, u32 num)
goto node_error;
}
+ if (!hfs_bnode_num_recs_valid(node, node->num_recs))
+ goto node_error;
+
rec_off = tree->node_size - 2;
off = hfs_bnode_read_u16(node, rec_off);
if (off != sizeof(struct hfs_bnode_desc))
@@ -588,6 +598,7 @@ struct hfs_bnode *hfs_bnode_find(struct hfs_btree *tree, u32 num)
next_off = hfs_bnode_read_u16(node, rec_off);
if (next_off <= off ||
next_off > tree->node_size ||
+ next_off > rec_off ||
next_off & 1)
goto node_error;
entry_size = next_off - off;
diff --git a/fs/hfsplus/brec.c b/fs/hfsplus/brec.c
index e3df89284079..dce397be9151 100644
--- a/fs/hfsplus/brec.c
+++ b/fs/hfsplus/brec.c
@@ -20,12 +20,27 @@ static int hfs_btree_inc_height(struct hfs_btree *);
u16 hfs_brec_lenoff(struct hfs_bnode *node, u16 rec, u16 *off)
{
__be16 retval[2];
- u16 dataoff;
+ u16 data_off;
+ u16 next_off;
- dataoff = node->tree->node_size - (rec + 2) * 2;
- hfs_bnode_read(node, retval, dataoff, 4);
+ if (rec >= node->num_recs ||
+ !hfs_bnode_num_recs_valid(node, node->num_recs)) {
+ *off = 0;
+ return 0;
+ }
+
+ data_off = node->tree->node_size - (rec + 2) * 2;
+ hfs_bnode_read(node, retval, data_off, 4);
*off = be16_to_cpu(retval[1]);
- return be16_to_cpu(retval[0]) - *off;
+ next_off = be16_to_cpu(retval[0]);
+ if (*off < sizeof(struct hfs_bnode_desc) ||
+ *off & 1 ||
+ next_off <= *off ||
+ next_off > node->tree->node_size ||
+ next_off > data_off ||
+ next_off & 1)
+ return 0;
+ return next_off - *off;
}
/* Get the length of the key from a keyed record */
@@ -35,6 +50,9 @@ u16 hfs_brec_keylen(struct hfs_bnode *node, u16 rec)
if (node->type != HFS_NODE_INDEX && node->type != HFS_NODE_LEAF)
return 0;
+ if (rec >= node->num_recs ||
+ !hfs_bnode_num_recs_valid(node, node->num_recs))
+ return 0;
if ((node->type == HFS_NODE_INDEX) &&
!(node->tree->attributes & HFS_TREE_VARIDXKEYS) &&
@@ -43,7 +61,7 @@ u16 hfs_brec_keylen(struct hfs_bnode *node, u16 rec)
} else {
recoff = hfs_bnode_read_u16(node,
node->tree->node_size - (rec + 1) * 2);
- if (!recoff)
+ if (recoff < sizeof(struct hfs_bnode_desc) || recoff & 1)
return 0;
if (recoff > node->tree->node_size - 2) {
pr_err("recoff %d too large\n", recoff);
@@ -185,10 +203,17 @@ int hfs_brec_remove(struct hfs_find_data *fd)
tree = fd->tree;
node = fd->bnode;
again:
+ if (fd->record < 0 ||
+ fd->record >= node->num_recs ||
+ !hfs_bnode_num_recs_valid(node, node->num_recs))
+ return -EIO;
+
rec_off = tree->node_size - (fd->record + 2) * 2;
end_off = tree->node_size - (node->num_recs + 1) * 2;
if (node->type == HFS_NODE_LEAF) {
+ if (!tree->leaf_count)
+ return -EIO;
tree->leaf_count--;
mark_inode_dirty(tree->inode);
}
diff --git a/fs/hfsplus/hfsplus_fs.h b/fs/hfsplus/hfsplus_fs.h
index ec04b82ad927..8b2f2041b8b9 100644
--- a/fs/hfsplus/hfsplus_fs.h
+++ b/fs/hfsplus/hfsplus_fs.h
@@ -587,6 +587,24 @@ bool is_bnode_offset_valid(struct hfs_bnode *node, u32 off)
return is_valid;
}
+static inline
+bool hfs_bnode_num_recs_valid(struct hfs_bnode *node, u16 num_recs)
+{
+ u32 node_size;
+ u32 offs_size;
+
+ if (!node || !node->tree)
+ return false;
+
+ node_size = node->tree->node_size;
+ if (node_size < sizeof(struct hfs_bnode_desc) + sizeof(__be16))
+ return false;
+
+ offs_size = ((u32)num_recs + 1) * sizeof(__be16);
+
+ return offs_size <= node_size - sizeof(struct hfs_bnode_desc);
+}
+
static inline
u32 check_and_correct_requested_length(struct hfs_bnode *node, u32 off, u32 len)
{
--
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