[PATCH] ufs: use u64 for directory size in ufs_last_byte
From: YANXIN LI
Date: Sat Jul 18 2026 - 15:03:47 EST
ufs1_read_inode() and ufs2_read_inode() copy the untrusted 64-bit
on-disk size into inode->i_size. ufs_last_byte() then truncates that
value to an unsigned int before calculating the valid extent of a
directory folio.
A directory size of exactly 4 GiB is truncated to zero. In
ufs_find_entry(), subtracting the requested record length from that zero
forms an endpoint almost 4 GiB beyond the mapped folio. A crafted UFS2
image produces:
BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in ufs_find_entry+0x583/0x6e0 [ufs]
Read of size 1
...
ufs_find_entry
ufs_inode_by_name
ufs_lookup
__lookup_slow
path_lookupat
The KASAN classification reflects that the adjacent physical page was
free; the source-level operation is an out-of-folio read. A controlled
UFS1 test with CONFIG_UFS_FS_WRITE enabled also made ufs_find_entry()
return a directory entry from an adjacent anonymous page. unlink() then
passed that pointer to ufs_delete_entry(), which cleared the adjacent
page's 3
2-bit d_ino. This write result reproduced three out of three
times.
UFS normally requires a privileged mount path. A relevant boundary is
a privileged automounter or image-processing service handling an
attacker-supplied filesystem. The write primitive additionally requires
UFS1 to be mounted read-write with CONFIG_UFS_FS_WRITE enabled; the read
is reachable with read-only UFS2.
Keep the intermediate size arithmetic at 64 bits so non-final pages are
bounded at PAGE_SIZE. With this change, the same controlled tests reach
the real on-disk directory entry and produce no adjacent-page write or
KASAN report. A reproducer and full validation logs are available on
request.
The vulnerable helper is present in v7.2-rc3, v7.1, v6.18.38, v6.12.95,
v6.6.111, and upstream master at 1229e2e57a5c. Runtime reproduction and
fix validation were performed in an x86-64 QEMU guest running v7.2-rc3
with generic KASAN.
Fixes: b71034e5e67d ("[PATCH] ufs: directory and page cache:
from blocks to pages")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: YANXIN LI <fadouse@xxxxx>
---
fs/ufs/dir.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/fs/ufs/dir.c b/fs/ufs/dir.c
index e62fe5667..69e6d5535 100644
--- a/fs/ufs/dir.c
+++ b/fs/ufs/dir.c
@@ -213,7 +213,7 @@ static void *ufs_get_folio(struct inode *dir, unsigned long n,
static unsigned
ufs_last_byte(struct inode *inode, unsigned long page_nr)
{
- unsigned last_byte = inode->i_size;
+ u64 last_byte = inode->i_size;
last_byte -= page_nr << PAGE_SHIFT;
if (last_byte > PAGE_SIZE)
base-commit: 1229e2e57a5c2980ccd457b9b53ea0eed5a22ab3
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