[PATCH v2 4/4] ocfs2: validate suballoc slot and bit of extent and refcount blocks

From: Joseph Qi

Date: Tue Sep 01 2026 - 02:35:52 EST


ocfs2_validate_extent_block() and ocfs2_validate_refcount_block() do
not validate h_suballoc_slot, h_suballoc_bit, rf_suballoc_slot and
rf_suballoc_bit at all. Since extent blocks and refcount blocks are
allocated from a per-slot suballocator at runtime, their suballoc
slots must be within range and their suballoc bits must fit in a block
group bitmap.

Otherwise a corrupted image can carry an out-of-range slot. When the
extent block is freed, ocfs2_cache_extent_block_free() caches it and
ocfs2_free_cached_blocks() later passes the unvalidated slot to
ocfs2_get_system_file_inode(); when the refcount block is freed,
ocfs2_remove_refcount_extent() passes it via ocfs2_cache_block_dealloc().
get_local_system_inode() will then either hit
BUG_ON(slot == OCFS2_INVALID_SLOT) or compute an out-of-bounds index
into the local_system_inodes array. Similarly an oversized suballoc
bit will trigger BUG_ON((count + start_bit) > ocfs2_bits_per_group(cl))
in _ocfs2_free_suballoc_bits().

Reject out-of-range suballoc slots and oversized suballoc bits during
validation.

Signed-off-by: Joseph Qi <joseph.qi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/ocfs2/alloc.c | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
fs/ocfs2/refcounttree.c | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 54 insertions(+)

diff --git a/fs/ocfs2/alloc.c b/fs/ocfs2/alloc.c
index be09e766ac1f..9f5e94e734e9 100644
--- a/fs/ocfs2/alloc.c
+++ b/fs/ocfs2/alloc.c
@@ -925,6 +925,33 @@ static int ocfs2_validate_extent_block(struct super_block *sb,
goto bail;
}

+ /*
+ * Extent blocks are allocated from a per-slot suballocator, so the
+ * slot must be in range. Otherwise freeing the block passes it to
+ * get_local_system_inode(), which hits BUG_ON() for
+ * OCFS2_INVALID_SLOT or computes an out-of-bounds index otherwise.
+ */
+ if ((u32)le16_to_cpu(eb->h_suballoc_slot) >= OCFS2_SB(sb)->max_slots) {
+ rc = ocfs2_error(sb,
+ "Extent block #%llu has an invalid h_suballoc_slot of %u\n",
+ (unsigned long long)bh->b_blocknr,
+ le16_to_cpu(eb->h_suballoc_slot));
+ goto bail;
+ }
+
+ /*
+ * Similarly the suballoc bit must fit in a block group bitmap.
+ * Otherwise freeing the block will pass the oversized bit to
+ * _ocfs2_free_suballoc_bits() and trigger BUG_ON() there.
+ */
+ if (le16_to_cpu(eb->h_suballoc_bit) >= ocfs2_suballoc_bits_per_block(sb)) {
+ rc = ocfs2_error(sb,
+ "Extent block #%llu has an invalid h_suballoc_bit of %u\n",
+ (unsigned long long)bh->b_blocknr,
+ le16_to_cpu(eb->h_suballoc_bit));
+ goto bail;
+ }
+
if (le16_to_cpu(eb->h_list.l_count) != ocfs2_extent_recs_per_eb(sb)) {
rc = ocfs2_error(sb,
"Extent block #%llu has invalid l_count %u (expected %u)\n",
diff --git a/fs/ocfs2/refcounttree.c b/fs/ocfs2/refcounttree.c
index d9f22b4a2654..3c8f2b64a8e1 100644
--- a/fs/ocfs2/refcounttree.c
+++ b/fs/ocfs2/refcounttree.c
@@ -117,6 +117,33 @@ static int ocfs2_validate_refcount_block(struct super_block *sb,
goto out;
}

+ /*
+ * Refcount blocks are allocated from a per-slot suballocator, so the
+ * slot must be in range. Otherwise freeing the block passes it to
+ * get_local_system_inode(), which hits BUG_ON() for
+ * OCFS2_INVALID_SLOT or computes an out-of-bounds index otherwise.
+ */
+ if ((u32)le16_to_cpu(rb->rf_suballoc_slot) >= OCFS2_SB(sb)->max_slots) {
+ rc = ocfs2_error(sb,
+ "Refcount block #%llu has an invalid rf_suballoc_slot of %u\n",
+ (unsigned long long)bh->b_blocknr,
+ le16_to_cpu(rb->rf_suballoc_slot));
+ goto out;
+ }
+
+ /*
+ * Similarly the suballoc bit must fit in a block group bitmap.
+ * Otherwise freeing the block will pass the oversized bit to
+ * _ocfs2_free_suballoc_bits() and trigger BUG_ON() there.
+ */
+ if (le16_to_cpu(rb->rf_suballoc_bit) >= ocfs2_suballoc_bits_per_block(sb)) {
+ rc = ocfs2_error(sb,
+ "Refcount block #%llu has an invalid rf_suballoc_bit of %u\n",
+ (unsigned long long)bh->b_blocknr,
+ le16_to_cpu(rb->rf_suballoc_bit));
+ goto out;
+ }
+
/*
* rf_records (rl_count/rl_used/rl_recs[]) is only meaningful when
* this block is not an interior tree block (OCFS2_REFCOUNT_TREE_FL);
--
2.39.3