[PATCH] fs/ntfs3: check INDEX_ROOT resident size before use in ntfs_read_mft()
From: Xiang Mei (Microsoft)
Date: Mon Jul 06 2026 - 21:55:03 EST
When ntfs_read_mft() parses an ATTR_ROOT attribute it computes
root = Add2Ptr(attr, roff);
using the on-disk resident data offset (roff = attr->res.data_off) and
then dereferences root->type and root->rule, and later passes root on to
indx_init(). Unlike the ATTR_STD and ATTR_NAME cases, which validate that
the resident data is large enough (asize >= sizeof(struct X) + roff and
rsize >= sizeof(struct X)) before accessing it, the ATTR_ROOT case has no
such check.
mi_enum_attr() only guarantees data_off + data_size <= attribute size, so
a crafted image can set data_off such that root lands at (or past) the end
of the MFT record's slab allocation while still passing that check (e.g.
data_size == 0). The subsequent read of root->type is then a
slab-out-of-bounds read, reported by KASAN when mounting the image:
BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in ntfs_iget5 (fs/ntfs3/inode.c:283)
Read of size 4 at addr ffff88800c06a400 by task exploit/142
Call Trace:
... [KASAN report internals]
ntfs_iget5 (fs/ntfs3/inode.c:283 fs/ntfs3/inode.c:542)
ntfs_fill_super (fs/ntfs3/super.c:1690)
get_tree_bdev_flags (fs/super.c:1634)
vfs_get_tree (fs/super.c:1694)
fc_mount (fs/namespace.c:1198)
path_mount (fs/namespace.c:3765 ...)
__x64_sys_mount (fs/namespace.c:4174 ...)
do_syscall_64 (arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63)
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe (arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:121)
The buggy address is located 0 bytes to the right of
allocated 1024-byte region [ffff88800c06a000, ffff88800c06a400)
which belongs to the cache kmalloc-1k of size 1024
Validate the resident data size in the ATTR_ROOT case the same way the
neighbouring cases do, so that a truncated or mis-offset INDEX_ROOT is
rejected before root is dereferenced.
Fixes: 82cae269cfa9 ("fs/ntfs3: Add initialization of super block")
Reported-by: AutonomousCodeSecurity@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Xiang Mei (Microsoft) <xmei5@xxxxxxx>
---
fs/ntfs3/inode.c | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/fs/ntfs3/inode.c b/fs/ntfs3/inode.c
index c43101cc064d..efb6a855c5ad 100644
--- a/fs/ntfs3/inode.c
+++ b/fs/ntfs3/inode.c
@@ -271,7 +271,9 @@ static struct inode *ntfs_read_mft(struct inode *inode,
break;
case ATTR_ROOT:
- if (attr->non_res)
+ if (attr->non_res ||
+ asize < sizeof(struct INDEX_ROOT) + roff ||
+ rsize < sizeof(struct INDEX_ROOT))
goto out;
root = Add2Ptr(attr, roff);
--
2.43.0