The quilt patch titled Subject: Squashfs: check the inode number is not the invalid value of zero has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was squashfs-check-the-inode-number-is-not-the-invalid-value-of-zero.patch
This patch was dropped because it was merged into the mm-hotfixes-stable branch of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
------------------------------------------------------ From: Phillip Lougher phillip@squashfs.org.uk Subject: Squashfs: check the inode number is not the invalid value of zero Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2024 23:02:06 +0100
Syskiller has produced an out of bounds access in fill_meta_index().
That out of bounds access is ultimately caused because the inode has an inode number with the invalid value of zero, which was not checked.
The reason this causes the out of bounds access is due to following sequence of events:
1. Fill_meta_index() is called to allocate (via empty_meta_index()) and fill a metadata index. It however suffers a data read error and aborts, invalidating the newly returned empty metadata index. It does this by setting the inode number of the index to zero, which means unused (zero is not a valid inode number).
2. When fill_meta_index() is subsequently called again on another read operation, locate_meta_index() returns the previous index because it matches the inode number of 0. Because this index has been returned it is expected to have been filled, and because it hasn't been, an out of bounds access is performed.
This patch adds a sanity check which checks that the inode number is not zero when the inode is created and returns -EINVAL if it is.
[phillip@squashfs.org.uk: whitespace fix] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240409204723.446925-1-phillip@squashfs.org.uk Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240408220206.435788-1-phillip@squashfs.org.uk Signed-off-by: Phillip Lougher phillip@squashfs.org.uk Reported-by: "Ubisectech Sirius" bugreport@ubisectech.com Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/87f5c007-b8a5-41ae-8b57-431e924c5915.bugreport@... Cc: Christian Brauner brauner@kernel.org Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton akpm@linux-foundation.org ---
fs/squashfs/inode.c | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/fs/squashfs/inode.c~squashfs-check-the-inode-number-is-not-the-invalid-value-of-zero +++ a/fs/squashfs/inode.c @@ -48,6 +48,10 @@ static int squashfs_new_inode(struct sup gid_t i_gid; int err;
+ inode->i_ino = le32_to_cpu(sqsh_ino->inode_number); + if (inode->i_ino == 0) + return -EINVAL; + err = squashfs_get_id(sb, le16_to_cpu(sqsh_ino->uid), &i_uid); if (err) return err; @@ -58,7 +62,6 @@ static int squashfs_new_inode(struct sup
i_uid_write(inode, i_uid); i_gid_write(inode, i_gid); - inode->i_ino = le32_to_cpu(sqsh_ino->inode_number); inode_set_mtime(inode, le32_to_cpu(sqsh_ino->mtime), 0); inode_set_atime(inode, inode_get_mtime_sec(inode), 0); inode_set_ctime(inode, inode_get_mtime_sec(inode), 0); _
Patches currently in -mm which might be from phillip@squashfs.org.uk are
squashfs-remove-deprecated-strncpy-by-not-copying-the-string.patch