[PATCH] cachefiles: Fix OOB access in coherency trace
From: Chandradhar Kumar
Date: Sun Aug 16 2026 - 14:56:22 EST
The coherency trace read the first 8 bytes of the auxiliary data with
be64_to_cpup(). However the auxiliary data stored in a cachefiles
xattr is variable length.
9P uses the 4-byte QID version as auxiliary data. Thus buf->data
contains only those 4 bytes, but the coherency trace unconditionally
reads 8 bytes from it, causing KASAN slab-out-of-bounds report.
Copy up to the first 8 bytes of the auxiliary data into an 8-byte
buffer before reading it as a big-endian value.
Fixes: 229105e5cfd9 ("cachefiles: Add auxiliary data trace")
Reported-by: syzbot+62b392c7348147ad767d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=62b392c7348147ad767d
Signed-off-by: Chandradhar Kumar <chandradhar.2003@xxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/cachefiles/xattr.c | 14 +++++++++++---
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/cachefiles/xattr.c b/fs/cachefiles/xattr.c
index f8ae78b3f7b6..e4cd635e8abe 100644
--- a/fs/cachefiles/xattr.c
+++ b/fs/cachefiles/xattr.c
@@ -25,6 +25,14 @@ struct cachefiles_xattr {
__u8 data[]; /* netfs coherency data */
} __packed;
+static u64 cachefiles_get_aux_u64(const void *data, unsigned int len)
+{
+ __be64 aux = 0;
+
+ memcpy(&aux, data, min_t(unsigned int, len, sizeof(aux)));
+ return be64_to_cpup(&aux);
+}
+
static const char cachefiles_xattr_cache[] =
XATTR_USER_PREFIX "CacheFiles.cache";
@@ -77,7 +85,7 @@ int cachefiles_set_object_xattr(struct cachefiles_object *object)
trace_cachefiles_vfs_error(object, file_inode(file), ret,
cachefiles_trace_setxattr_error);
trace_cachefiles_coherency(object, file_inode(file)->i_ino,
- be64_to_cpup((__be64 *)buf->data),
+ cachefiles_get_aux_u64(buf->data, len),
buf->content,
cachefiles_coherency_set_fail);
if (ret != -ENOMEM)
@@ -86,7 +94,7 @@ int cachefiles_set_object_xattr(struct cachefiles_object *object)
"Failed to set xattr with error %d", ret);
} else {
trace_cachefiles_coherency(object, file_inode(file)->i_ino,
- be64_to_cpup((__be64 *)buf->data),
+ cachefiles_get_aux_u64(buf->data, len),
buf->content,
cachefiles_coherency_set_ok);
}
@@ -148,7 +156,7 @@ int cachefiles_check_auxdata(struct cachefiles_object *object, struct file *file
out:
trace_cachefiles_coherency(object, file_inode(file)->i_ino,
- be64_to_cpup((__be64 *)buf->data),
+ cachefiles_get_aux_u64(buf->data, len),
buf->content, why);
kfree(buf);
return ret;
--
2.55.0