From: Sidharth Seela <sidharthseela@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2025 06:40:16 +0000 (+0530)
Subject: ntfs3: Fix uninit buffer allocated by __getname()
X-Git-Tag: v6.19-rc1~160^2~17
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=9948dcb2f7b5a1bf8e8710eafaf6016e00be3ad6;p=thirdparty%2Fkernel%2Fstable.git

ntfs3: Fix uninit buffer allocated by __getname()

Fix uninit errors caused after buffer allocation given to 'de'; by
initializing the buffer with zeroes. The fix was found by using KMSAN.

Reported-by: syzbot+332bd4e9d148f11a87dc@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Fixes: 78ab59fee07f2 ("fs/ntfs3: Rework file operations")
Signed-off-by: Sidharth Seela <sidharthseela@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Konstantin Komarov <almaz.alexandrovich@paragon-software.com>
---

diff --git a/fs/ntfs3/inode.c b/fs/ntfs3/inode.c
index b741a697e572..439078106cc6 100644
--- a/fs/ntfs3/inode.c
+++ b/fs/ntfs3/inode.c
@@ -1725,6 +1725,7 @@ int ntfs_link_inode(struct inode *inode, struct dentry *dentry)
 	de = __getname();
 	if (!de)
 		return -ENOMEM;
+	memset(de, 0, PATH_MAX);
 
 	/* Mark rw ntfs as dirty. It will be cleared at umount. */
 	ntfs_set_state(sbi, NTFS_DIRTY_DIRTY);