[PATCH] ntfs: fix off-by-one page overflow in ntfs_decompress()

From: Dennis Tighe

Date: Mon Aug 17 2026 - 11:21:25 EST


The per-token range check in ntfs_decompress() uses

    if (cb >= cb_sb_end || dp_addr > dp_sb_end)
        break;

so dp_addr == dp_sb_end falls through to the symbol copy
`*dp_addr++ = *cb++`, writing one byte past the destination page. Since
NTFS_SB_SIZE == PAGE_SIZE the destination is a single page, so the byte
lands in the adjacent page, and *dest_ofs is left one past the sub-block
end (the later `*dest_ofs &= ~PAGE_MASK` then yields 1, not 0, so the page
is never finalized and later sub-blocks keep writing further past it).  A
corrupted compressed $DATA attribute then produces a bounded run of
out-of-bounds writes when the file is read.

The fix is to break as soon as dp_addr reaches dp_sb_end; a full
sub-block still completes, as its final copy advances dp_addr to exactly
dp_sb_end.

Fixes: 1e9ea7e04472 ("Revert \"fs: Remove NTFS classic\"")
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8
Signed-off-by: Dennis Tighe <dennis.tighe@xxxxxxxxx>
---
Reproducer is available on request if needed for validation. I was able to
craft an imagine that would exercise this scenario leading to KASAN UAF
errors on read-only mounts.

 fs/ntfs/compress.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/ntfs/compress.c b/fs/ntfs/compress.c
index 76bd806b41e..dc5ad951dc6 100644
--- a/fs/ntfs/compress.c
+++ b/fs/ntfs/compress.c
@@ -352,7 +352,7 @@ static int ntfs_decompress(struct page *dest_pages[], int completed_pages[],
         u8 *dp_back_addr;

         /* Check if we are done / still in range. */
-        if (cb >= cb_sb_end || dp_addr > dp_sb_end)
+        if (cb >= cb_sb_end || dp_addr >= dp_sb_end)
             break;

         /* Determine token type and parse appropriately.*/
--
2.47.3