[PATCH v2 2/4] ocfs2: validate suballoc bit during inode read
From: Joseph Qi
Date: Tue Sep 01 2026 - 02:33:30 EST
i_suballoc_bit of a dinode is currently not validated at all. A
corrupted dinode can carry an abnormally large i_suballoc_bit, which
bypasses ocfs2_validate_inode_block(). When the inode is deleted,
ocfs2_remove_inode() calls ocfs2_free_dinode(), which passes the
unvalidated bit to _ocfs2_free_suballoc_bits() and triggers
BUG_ON((count + start_bit) > ocfs2_bits_per_group(cl)).
A suballocator block group bitmap is contained in a single block and
starts after the group descriptor header, so a valid suballoc bit must
be smaller than the number of bits fitting in the remaining space.
Reject oversized i_suballoc_bit values during dinode validation.
Signed-off-by: Joseph Qi <joseph.qi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/ocfs2/inode.c | 16 ++++++++++++++++
fs/ocfs2/ocfs2.h | 11 +++++++++++
2 files changed, 27 insertions(+)
diff --git a/fs/ocfs2/inode.c b/fs/ocfs2/inode.c
index 9228d6ef23c2..92f3450010fb 100644
--- a/fs/ocfs2/inode.c
+++ b/fs/ocfs2/inode.c
@@ -1547,6 +1547,22 @@ int ocfs2_validate_inode_block(struct super_block *sb,
goto bail;
}
+ /*
+ * A suballocator block group bitmap is contained in a single block
+ * and starts after the group descriptor header, so a valid suballoc
+ * bit can never exceed ocfs2_suballoc_bits_per_block(). Otherwise
+ * deleting the inode will pass the oversized bit to
+ * _ocfs2_free_suballoc_bits() via ocfs2_free_dinode() and trigger
+ * BUG_ON((count + start_bit) > ocfs2_bits_per_group(cl)), since any
+ * group holds at most ocfs2_suballoc_bits_per_block() bits.
+ */
+ if (le16_to_cpu(di->i_suballoc_bit) >= ocfs2_suballoc_bits_per_block(sb)) {
+ rc = ocfs2_error(sb, "Invalid dinode %llu: suballoc bit %u\n",
+ (unsigned long long)bh->b_blocknr,
+ le16_to_cpu(di->i_suballoc_bit));
+ goto bail;
+ }
+
if ((le32_to_cpu(di->i_flags) & OCFS2_ORPHANED_FL) &&
le16_to_cpu(di->i_orphaned_slot) >= OCFS2_SB(sb)->max_slots) {
rc = ocfs2_error(sb, "Invalid dinode %llu: orphaned slot %u\n",
diff --git a/fs/ocfs2/ocfs2.h b/fs/ocfs2/ocfs2.h
index b747cdec1787..b6ead97605b3 100644
--- a/fs/ocfs2/ocfs2.h
+++ b/fs/ocfs2/ocfs2.h
@@ -593,6 +593,17 @@ static inline int ocfs2_supports_discontig_bg(struct ocfs2_super *osb)
return 0;
}
+/*
+ * A suballocator block group bitmap starts right after the group
+ * descriptor header and extends to the end of the group block, so a
+ * suballoc bit can never exceed this number of bits.
+ */
+static inline u32 ocfs2_suballoc_bits_per_block(struct super_block *sb)
+{
+ return (sb->s_blocksize - offsetof(struct ocfs2_group_desc,
+ bg_bitmap)) * 8;
+}
+
static inline unsigned int ocfs2_link_max(struct ocfs2_super *osb)
{
if (ocfs2_supports_indexed_dirs(osb))
--
2.39.3