[PATCH v2] ntfs: fix off-by-one page overflow in ntfs_decompress()
From: Dennis Tighe
Date: Thu Aug 20 2026 - 02:40:01 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 thus produces a bounded run of
out-of-bounds writes when the file is read.
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>
Reviewed-by: Hyunchul Lee <hyc.lee@xxxxxxxxx>
---
fixing blankspace, no functional change
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 76bd806..dc5ad95 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