[PATCH] f2fs: reject invalid recovered filename lengths

From: Wenjie Qi

Date: Wed Jul 29 2026 - 08:20:51 EST


Recovery uses raw_inode->i_namelen directly when rebuilding fsynced
dentries. A zero-length name uses no dentry slots, so recovery can
report success without recreating the dentry.

Treat zero-length and oversized recovered names as corruption, mark
NEED_FSCK, and stop recovery with -EFSCORRUPTED.

Signed-off-by: Wenjie Qi <qiwenjie@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/f2fs/recovery.c | 14 +++++++++++---
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/f2fs/recovery.c b/fs/f2fs/recovery.c
index 89af8407b667..70cf99efcb3c 100644
--- a/fs/f2fs/recovery.c
+++ b/fs/f2fs/recovery.c
@@ -126,8 +126,8 @@ static int init_recovered_filename(const struct inode *dir,
fname->disk_name.len = le32_to_cpu(raw_inode->i_namelen);
fname->disk_name.name = raw_inode->i_name;

- if (WARN_ON(fname->disk_name.len > F2FS_NAME_LEN))
- return -ENAMETOOLONG;
+ if (!fname->disk_name.len || fname->disk_name.len > F2FS_NAME_LEN)
+ return -EFSCORRUPTED;

if (!IS_ENCRYPTED(dir)) {
usr_fname->name = fname->disk_name.name;
@@ -185,8 +185,16 @@ static int recover_dentry(struct inode *inode, struct folio *ifolio,

dir = entry->inode;
err = init_recovered_filename(dir, raw_inode, &fname, &usr_fname);
- if (err)
+ if (err) {
+ if (err == -EFSCORRUPTED) {
+ f2fs_err(F2FS_I_SB(inode),
+ "invalid recovered filename length %u for ino %llu",
+ le32_to_cpu(raw_inode->i_namelen), inode->i_ino);
+ set_sbi_flag(F2FS_I_SB(inode), SBI_NEED_FSCK);
+ f2fs_handle_error(F2FS_I_SB(inode), ERROR_CORRUPTED_INODE);
+ }
goto out;
+ }
retry:
de = __f2fs_find_entry(dir, &fname, &folio);
if (de && inode->i_ino == le32_to_cpu(de->ino))