From: ZhengYuan Huang Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2026 07:26:50 +0000 (+0800) Subject: fs/ntfs3: hold ni_lock across readdir metadata walk X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=d62cf685d12e95cc0a4122c43cd9f0eb8bba0b4c;p=thirdparty%2Fkernel%2Flinux.git fs/ntfs3: hold ni_lock across readdir metadata walk [BUG] KASAN reports a slab-use-after-free during getdents(2): BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in ntfs_read_mft fs/ntfs3/inode.c:79 [inline] BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in ntfs_iget5+0x59b/0x3450 fs/ntfs3/inode.c:541 Read of size 2 at addr ffff88800b7a5a4e by task syz.0.1061/2354 Call Trace: __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:94 [inline] dump_stack_lvl+0xbe/0x130 lib/dump_stack.c:120 print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:378 [inline] print_report+0xd1/0x650 mm/kasan/report.c:482 kasan_report+0xfb/0x140 mm/kasan/report.c:595 __asan_report_load2_noabort+0x14/0x30 mm/kasan/report_generic.c:379 ntfs_read_mft fs/ntfs3/inode.c:79 [inline] ntfs_iget5+0x59b/0x3450 fs/ntfs3/inode.c:541 ntfs_dir_emit fs/ntfs3/dir.c:337 [inline] ntfs_read_hdr+0x714/0x930 fs/ntfs3/dir.c:385 ntfs_readdir+0xaad/0x1010 fs/ntfs3/dir.c:458 iterate_dir+0x276/0x9e0 fs/readdir.c:108 __do_sys_getdents fs/readdir.c:326 [inline] __se_sys_getdents fs/readdir.c:312 [inline] __x64_sys_getdents+0x143/0x290 fs/readdir.c:312 ... Allocated by task 2160: kasan_save_stack+0x39/0x70 mm/kasan/common.c:56 kasan_save_track+0x14/0x40 mm/kasan/common.c:77 kasan_save_alloc_info+0x37/0x60 mm/kasan/generic.c:573 poison_kmalloc_redzone mm/kasan/common.c:400 [inline] __kasan_kmalloc+0xc3/0xd0 mm/kasan/common.c:417 kasan_kmalloc include/linux/kasan.h:262 [inline] __do_kmalloc_node mm/slub.c:5650 [inline] __kmalloc_noprof+0x2bd/0x900 mm/slub.c:5662 kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:961 [inline] mi_init+0x9d/0x110 fs/ntfs3/record.c:105 mi_format_new+0x6b/0x500 fs/ntfs3/record.c:422 ni_add_subrecord+0x129/0x540 fs/ntfs3/frecord.c:321 ntfs_look_free_mft+0x238/0xd90 fs/ntfs3/fsntfs.c:715 ni_create_attr_list+0x8e6/0x1690 fs/ntfs3/frecord.c:826 ni_ins_attr_ext+0x5ec/0x9d0 fs/ntfs3/frecord.c:924 ni_insert_attr+0x2bf/0x830 fs/ntfs3/frecord.c:1091 ni_insert_resident+0xec/0x3d0 fs/ntfs3/frecord.c:1475 ni_add_name+0x4b2/0x8a0 fs/ntfs3/frecord.c:2987 ni_rename+0xa6/0x160 fs/ntfs3/frecord.c:3026 ntfs_rename+0xa19/0xe00 fs/ntfs3/namei.c:332 vfs_rename+0xd42/0x1d50 fs/namei.c:5216 do_renameat2+0x715/0xb60 fs/namei.c:5364 __do_sys_rename fs/namei.c:5411 [inline] __se_sys_rename fs/namei.c:5409 [inline] __x64_sys_rename+0x83/0xb0 fs/namei.c:5409 x64_sys_call+0x8c4/0x26a0 arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_64.h:83 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline] do_syscall_64+0x93/0xf80 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e Freed by task 85: kasan_save_stack+0x39/0x70 mm/kasan/common.c:56 kasan_save_track+0x14/0x40 mm/kasan/common.c:77 __kasan_save_free_info+0x3b/0x60 mm/kasan/generic.c:587 kasan_save_free_info mm/kasan/kasan.h:406 [inline] poison_slab_object mm/kasan/common.c:252 [inline] __kasan_slab_free+0x6f/0xa0 mm/kasan/common.c:284 kasan_slab_free include/linux/kasan.h:234 [inline] slab_free_hook mm/slub.c:2543 [inline] slab_free mm/slub.c:6642 [inline] kfree+0x2bf/0x6b0 mm/slub.c:6849 mi_clear fs/ntfs3/ntfs_fs.h:1107 [inline] mi_put+0x10e/0x1a0 fs/ntfs3/record.c:97 ni_write_inode+0x479/0x2a00 fs/ntfs3/frecord.c:3320 ntfs3_write_inode+0x51/0x70 fs/ntfs3/inode.c:1042 write_inode fs/fs-writeback.c:1564 [inline] __writeback_single_inode+0x8c9/0xc30 fs/fs-writeback.c:1784 writeback_sb_inodes+0x5e6/0xf60 fs/fs-writeback.c:2015 __writeback_inodes_wb+0x10c/0x2d0 fs/fs-writeback.c:2086 wb_writeback+0x63f/0x900 fs/fs-writeback.c:2197 wb_check_old_data_flush fs/fs-writeback.c:2301 [inline] wb_do_writeback fs/fs-writeback.c:2354 [inline] wb_workfn+0x8cc/0xd60 fs/fs-writeback.c:2382 process_one_work+0x8e0/0x1980 kernel/workqueue.c:3263 process_scheduled_works kernel/workqueue.c:3346 [inline] worker_thread+0x683/0xf80 kernel/workqueue.c:3427 kthread+0x3f0/0x850 kernel/kthread.c:463 ret_from_fork+0x50f/0x610 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245 The faulting address sits 590 bytes inside a freed kmalloc-1k object allocated by ni_add_subrecord() and freed from ni_write_inode() writeback. [CAUSE] ntfs_readdir() loads all subrecords once, but then drops ni_lock() before it starts walking the directory metadata through ntfs_read_hdr(). That leaves the current NTFS_DE pointer backed by parent-directory subrecord memory that concurrent writeback is still allowed to compact and free. The later ntfs_dir_emit() -> ntfs_iget5() call exposes the stale e->ref, but the lifetime bug starts earlier: readdir is still consuming parent-directory metadata after releasing the lock that protects it. [FIX] Keep ni_lock() held from the point where ntfs_readdir() starts consuming the directory metadata until the walk over root/index entries is finished. This closes the parent-directory lifetime hole directly and keeps the existing readdir d_type behaviour unchanged. Signed-off-by: ZhengYuan Huang Signed-off-by: Konstantin Komarov --- diff --git a/fs/ntfs3/dir.c b/fs/ntfs3/dir.c index d99ab086ef6f..a052ba9250e7 100644 --- a/fs/ntfs3/dir.c +++ b/fs/ntfs3/dir.c @@ -489,10 +489,17 @@ static int ntfs_readdir(struct file *file, struct dir_context *ctx) goto out; } + /* + * Keep directory metadata stable for the whole walk. Loading subrecords + * once is not enough if concurrent writeback can still compact ATTR_LIST + * entries and free the record that ntfs_read_hdr() is currently walking. + */ + ni_lock(ni); + root = indx_get_root(&ni->dir, ni, NULL, NULL); if (!root) { err = -EINVAL; - goto out; + goto out_unlock; } if (pos >= sbi->record_size) { @@ -503,7 +510,7 @@ static int ntfs_readdir(struct file *file, struct dir_context *ctx) */ err = ntfs_read_hdr(sbi, ni, &root->ihdr, 0, pos, name, ctx); if (err) - goto out; + goto out_unlock; bit = 0; } @@ -514,7 +521,7 @@ static int ntfs_readdir(struct file *file, struct dir_context *ctx) /* Get the next used index. */ err = indx_used_bit(&ni->dir, ni, &bit); if (err) - goto out; + goto out_unlock; if (bit == MINUS_ONE_T) { /* no more used indexes. end of dir. */ @@ -524,13 +531,13 @@ static int ntfs_readdir(struct file *file, struct dir_context *ctx) if (bit >= max_bit) { /* Corrupted directory. */ err = -EINVAL; - goto out; + goto out_unlock; } err = indx_read_ra(&ni->dir, ni, bit << ni->dir.idx2vbn_bits, &node, &file->f_ra); if (err) - goto out; + goto out_unlock; /* * Add each name from index in 'ctx'. @@ -539,9 +546,12 @@ static int ntfs_readdir(struct file *file, struct dir_context *ctx) ((u64)bit << index_bits) + sbi->record_size, pos, name, ctx); if (err) - goto out; + goto out_unlock; } +out_unlock: + ni_unlock(ni); + out: kfree(name); put_indx_node(node);