[PATCH v2 1/2] ntfs: fix kunmap_local() of advanced pointers in check_mft_mirror()
From: Karl Mehltretter
Date: Tue Oct 06 2026 - 00:53:55 EST
check_mft_mirror() compares the mft records of a page with the mirror
records by advancing kmft and kmirr by the record size for every record.
It then passes the advanced pointers to kunmap_local(). After the last
record of a page they point one page past the mapping.
With HIGHMEM kunmap_local() warns that the address does not match the
top of the kmap_local stack. What it does next depends on how the
architecture finds the page table entry:
- 32-bit ARM looks the entry up by that address. It clears the entry of
the neighbouring fixmap slot and leaves the real mapping in place.
The next kmap_local() on that CPU that reaches the slot hits the
BUG_ON(!pte_none()) in __kmap_local_pfn_prot().
- x86-32 takes the entry from the stack index, so the wrong address
does not select a wrong entry. In QEMU the mount carried on after the
warning.
With 4 KiB pages and 1 KiB mft records the four mirror records fill
exactly one page, so every mount whose $MFT and $MFTMirr folios are in
highmem hits it. A fresh mkntfs volume on 32-bit ARM
(multi_v7_defconfig, 256 MiB of highmem) fails on the first mount:
WARNING: mm/highmem.c:623 at kunmap_local_indexed+0x254/0x26c, CPU#1: mount/85
kunmap_local_indexed from ntfs_fill_super+0x224c/0x35a0
ntfs_fill_super from get_tree_bdev_flags+0x1d8/0x2a4
ntfs: volume version 3.1, dev loop0, cluster size 4096
kernel BUG at mm/highmem.c:565!
PC is at __kmap_local_pfn_prot+0x210/0x214
__kmap_local_page_prot from ntfs_check_logfile+0x1fc/0x1210
Found with syzkaller. Kernels without HIGHMEM do not show it.
kmap_local_folio() returns the direct map address there and
kunmap_local() has no mapping to remove.
Keep the addresses returned by kmap_local_folio() and unmap with those.
Fixes: 6251f0b0de7d ("ntfs: update super block operations")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Karl Mehltretter <kmehltretter@xxxxxxxxx>
---
Tested in QEMU on mainline 551c722f4080 with a fresh mkntfs volume and
with the syzkaller program that found the bug.
ARM multi_v7_defconfig plus KCOV, virt, cortex-a15, 2 CPUs,
1 GiB RAM, 256 MiB highmem
x86-32 i386_defconfig plus HIGHMEM4G and NTFS_FS, q35, 2 CPUs,
2 GiB RAM, 1.1 GiB highmem
In the table, warning is the WARNING at mm/highmem.c:623 and BUG is
the one at mm/highmem.c:565.
mainline with this patch
ARM, mount warning, then BUG 3 mounts clean
ARM, syzkaller program warning, then BUG 3 runs clean
x86-32, mount warning, no BUG warning gone
x86-32 still warns when mount(2) returns. That is the bug fixed by
patch 2.
The other kmap_local users in fs/ntfs unmap an address inside the
mapped page. Only check_mft_mirror() advances the pointer it later
unmaps.
fs/ntfs/super.c | 20 +++++++++++---------
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/ntfs/super.c b/fs/ntfs/super.c
index 4066bacabe37..a53f9997c152 100644
--- a/fs/ntfs/super.c
+++ b/fs/ntfs/super.c
@@ -959,7 +959,7 @@ static bool check_mft_mirror(struct ntfs_volume *vol)
struct super_block *sb = vol->sb;
struct ntfs_inode *mirr_ni;
struct folio *mft_folio = NULL, *mirr_folio = NULL;
- u8 *kmft = NULL, *kmirr = NULL;
+ u8 *kmft = NULL, *kmirr = NULL, *kmft_base = NULL, *kmirr_base = NULL;
struct runlist_element *rl, rl2[2];
pgoff_t index;
int mrecs_per_page, i;
@@ -974,9 +974,9 @@ static bool check_mft_mirror(struct ntfs_volume *vol)
/* Switch pages if necessary. */
if (!(i % mrecs_per_page)) {
if (index) {
- kunmap_local(kmirr);
+ kunmap_local(kmirr_base);
folio_put(mirr_folio);
- kunmap_local(kmft);
+ kunmap_local(kmft_base);
folio_put(mft_folio);
}
/* Get the $MFT page. */
@@ -986,7 +986,8 @@ static bool check_mft_mirror(struct ntfs_volume *vol)
ntfs_error(sb, "Failed to read $MFT.");
return false;
}
- kmft = kmap_local_folio(mft_folio, 0);
+ kmft_base = kmap_local_folio(mft_folio, 0);
+ kmft = kmft_base;
/* Get the $MFTMirr page. */
mirr_folio = read_mapping_folio(vol->mftmirr_ino->i_mapping,
index, NULL);
@@ -994,7 +995,8 @@ static bool check_mft_mirror(struct ntfs_volume *vol)
ntfs_error(sb, "Failed to read $MFTMirr.");
goto mft_unmap_out;
}
- kmirr = kmap_local_folio(mirr_folio, 0);
+ kmirr_base = kmap_local_folio(mirr_folio, 0);
+ kmirr = kmirr_base;
++index;
}
@@ -1006,10 +1008,10 @@ static bool check_mft_mirror(struct ntfs_volume *vol)
"Incomplete multi sector transfer detected in mft record %i.",
i);
mm_unmap_out:
- kunmap_local(kmirr);
+ kunmap_local(kmirr_base);
folio_put(mirr_folio);
mft_unmap_out:
- kunmap_local(kmft);
+ kunmap_local(kmft_base);
folio_put(mft_folio);
return false;
}
@@ -1045,9 +1047,9 @@ static bool check_mft_mirror(struct ntfs_volume *vol)
kmirr += vol->mft_record_size;
} while (++i < vol->mftmirr_size);
/* Release the last folios. */
- kunmap_local(kmirr);
+ kunmap_local(kmirr_base);
folio_put(mirr_folio);
- kunmap_local(kmft);
+ kunmap_local(kmft_base);
folio_put(mft_folio);
/* Construct the mft mirror runlist by hand. */
--
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