From: Jaehun Gou Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2025 11:01:09 +0000 (+0900) Subject: fs: ntfs3: fix infinite loop in attr_load_runs_range on inconsistent metadata X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=4b90f16e4bb5607fb35e7802eb67874038da4640;p=thirdparty%2Fkernel%2Flinux.git fs: ntfs3: fix infinite loop in attr_load_runs_range on inconsistent metadata We found an infinite loop bug in the ntfs3 file system that can lead to a Denial-of-Service (DoS) condition. A malformed NTFS image can cause an infinite loop when an attribute header indicates an empty run list, while directory entries reference it as containing actual data. In NTFS, setting evcn=-1 with svcn=0 is a valid way to represent an empty run list, and run_unpack() correctly handles this by checking if evcn + 1 equals svcn and returning early without parsing any run data. However, this creates a problem when there is metadata inconsistency, where the attribute header claims to be empty (evcn=-1) but the caller expects to read actual data. When run_unpack() immediately returns success upon seeing this condition, it leaves the runs_tree uninitialized with run->runs as a NULL. The calling function attr_load_runs_range() assumes that a successful return means that the runs were loaded and sets clen to 0, expecting the next run_lookup_entry() call to succeed. Because runs_tree remains uninitialized, run_lookup_entry() continues to fail, and the loop increments vcn by zero (vcn += 0), leading to an infinite loop. This patch adds a retry counter to detect when run_lookup_entry() fails consecutively after attr_load_runs_vcn(). If the run is still not found on the second attempt, it indicates corrupted metadata and returns -EINVAL, preventing the Denial-of-Service (DoS) vulnerability. Co-developed-by: Seunghun Han Signed-off-by: Seunghun Han Co-developed-by: Jihoon Kwon Signed-off-by: Jihoon Kwon Signed-off-by: Jaehun Gou Signed-off-by: Konstantin Komarov --- diff --git a/fs/ntfs3/attrib.c b/fs/ntfs3/attrib.c index 980ae9157248..c45880ab2391 100644 --- a/fs/ntfs3/attrib.c +++ b/fs/ntfs3/attrib.c @@ -1354,19 +1354,28 @@ int attr_load_runs_range(struct ntfs_inode *ni, enum ATTR_TYPE type, CLST vcn; CLST vcn_last = (to - 1) >> cluster_bits; CLST lcn, clen; - int err; + int err = 0; + int retry = 0; for (vcn = from >> cluster_bits; vcn <= vcn_last; vcn += clen) { if (!run_lookup_entry(run, vcn, &lcn, &clen, NULL)) { + if (retry != 0) { /* Next run_lookup_entry(vcn) also failed. */ + err = -EINVAL; + break; + } err = attr_load_runs_vcn(ni, type, name, name_len, run, vcn); if (err) - return err; + break; + clen = 0; /* Next run_lookup_entry(vcn) must be success. */ + retry++; } + else + retry = 0; } - return 0; + return err; } #ifdef CONFIG_NTFS3_LZX_XPRESS