[PATCH] ntfs: Fix validity check for file name attribute

Anton Altaparmakov anton at tuxera.com
Mon Jun 28 09:22:24 UTC 2021


Hi Andrew,

Please can you merge this patch?  I am also marking it for stable.

Thanks a lot in advance!

Best regards,

	Anton

---

When checking the file name attribute, we want to ensure that it fits
within the bounds of ATTR_RECORD. To do this, we should check
that (attr record + file name offset + file name length) < (attr
record + attr record length).

However, the original check did not include the file name offset in
the calculation. This means that corrupted on-disk metadata might not
caught by the incorrect file name check, and lead to an invalid memory
access.

An example can be seen in the crash report of a memory corruption
error found by Syzbot:
https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?id=a1a1e379b225812688566745c3e2f7242bffc246

Adding the file name offset to the validity check fixes this error and
passes the Syzbot reproducer test.

Reported-by: syzbot+213ac8bb98f7f4420840 at syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Tested-by: syzbot+213ac8bb98f7f4420840 at syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Desmond Cheong Zhi Xi <desmondcheongzx at gmail.com>
Acked-by: Anton Altaparmakov <anton at tuxera.com>
Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org
---
fs/ntfs/inode.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/ntfs/inode.c b/fs/ntfs/inode.c
index f5c058b3192c..4474adb393ca 100644
--- a/fs/ntfs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/ntfs/inode.c
@@ -477,7 +477,7 @@ static int ntfs_is_extended_system_file(ntfs_attr_search_ctx *ctx)
		}
		file_name_attr = (FILE_NAME_ATTR*)((u8*)attr +
				le16_to_cpu(attr->data.resident.value_offset));
-		p2 = (u8*)attr + le32_to_cpu(attr->data.resident.value_length);
+		p2 = (u8 *)file_name_attr + le32_to_cpu(attr->data.resident.value_length);
		if (p2 < (u8*)attr || p2 > p)
			goto err_corrupt_attr;
		/* This attribute is ok, but is it in the $Extend directory? */
-- 
2.25.1



-- 
Anton Altaparmakov <anton at tuxera.com> (replace at with @)
Lead in File System Development, Tuxera Inc., http://www.tuxera.com/
Linux NTFS maintainer



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