xfs_da3_path_shift() could see state->path.blk[-1] because state->path.active == 1 is a valid state when it tries to add an entry to a single dir leaf block and then to shift forward to see if there's a sibling block that would be a better place to put the new entry. UBSAN: Undefined behaviour in fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_da_btree.c:1989:14 index -1 is out of range for type 'xfs_da_state_blk_t [5]' Call trace: dump_backtrace+0x0/0x2c8 show_stack+0x20/0x2c dump_stack+0xe8/0x150 __ubsan_handle_out_of_bounds+0xe4/0xfc xfs_da3_path_shift+0x860/0x86c [xfs] xfs_da3_node_lookup_int+0x7c8/0x934 [xfs] xfs_dir2_node_addname+0x2c8/0xcd0 [xfs] xfs_dir_createname+0x348/0x38c [xfs] xfs_create+0x6b0/0x8b4 [xfs] xfs_generic_create+0x12c/0x1f8 [xfs] xfs_vn_mknod+0x3c/0x4c [xfs] xfs_vn_create+0x34/0x44 [xfs] do_last+0xd4c/0x10c8 path_openat+0xbc/0x2f4 do_filp_open+0x74/0xf4 do_sys_openat2+0x98/0x180 __arm64_sys_openat+0xf8/0x170 do_el0_svc+0x170/0x240 el0_sync_handler+0x150/0x250 el0_sync+0x164/0x180 Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Qian Cai <cai@xxxxxx> --- v2: update the commit log thanks to Darrick. simplify the code. fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_da_btree.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_da_btree.c b/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_da_btree.c index 875e04f82541..e864c3d47f60 100644 --- a/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_da_btree.c +++ b/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_da_btree.c @@ -1986,7 +1986,8 @@ static inline int xfs_dabuf_nfsb(struct xfs_mount *mp, int whichfork) ASSERT(path != NULL); ASSERT((path->active > 0) && (path->active < XFS_DA_NODE_MAXDEPTH)); level = (path->active-1) - 1; /* skip bottom layer in path */ - for (blk = &path->blk[level]; level >= 0; blk--, level--) { + for (; level >= 0; level--) { + blk = &path->blk[level]; xfs_da3_node_hdr_from_disk(dp->i_mount, &nodehdr, blk->bp->b_addr); -- 1.8.3.1