This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ext4: fix BUG_ON() when directory entry has invalid rec_len to the 6.0-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: ext4-fix-bug_on-when-directory-entry-has-invalid-rec_len.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.0 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 17a0bc9bd697f75cfdf9b378d5eb2d7409c91340 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Lu=C3=ADs=20Henriques?= <lhenriques@xxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2022 14:13:30 +0100 Subject: ext4: fix BUG_ON() when directory entry has invalid rec_len MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit From: Luís Henriques <lhenriques@xxxxxxx> commit 17a0bc9bd697f75cfdf9b378d5eb2d7409c91340 upstream. The rec_len field in the directory entry has to be a multiple of 4. A corrupted filesystem image can be used to hit a BUG() in ext4_rec_len_to_disk(), called from make_indexed_dir(). ------------[ cut here ]------------ kernel BUG at fs/ext4/ext4.h:2413! ... RIP: 0010:make_indexed_dir+0x53f/0x5f0 ... Call Trace: <TASK> ? add_dirent_to_buf+0x1b2/0x200 ext4_add_entry+0x36e/0x480 ext4_add_nondir+0x2b/0xc0 ext4_create+0x163/0x200 path_openat+0x635/0xe90 do_filp_open+0xb4/0x160 ? __create_object.isra.0+0x1de/0x3b0 ? _raw_spin_unlock+0x12/0x30 do_sys_openat2+0x91/0x150 __x64_sys_open+0x6c/0xa0 do_syscall_64+0x3c/0x80 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0 The fix simply adds a call to ext4_check_dir_entry() to validate the directory entry, returning -EFSCORRUPTED if the entry is invalid. CC: stable@xxxxxxxxxx Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=216540 Signed-off-by: Luís Henriques <lhenriques@xxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221012131330.32456-1-lhenriques@xxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/ext4/namei.c | 10 +++++++++- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/fs/ext4/namei.c +++ b/fs/ext4/namei.c @@ -2259,8 +2259,16 @@ static int make_indexed_dir(handle_t *ha memset(de, 0, len); /* wipe old data */ de = (struct ext4_dir_entry_2 *) data2; top = data2 + len; - while ((char *)(de2 = ext4_next_entry(de, blocksize)) < top) + while ((char *)(de2 = ext4_next_entry(de, blocksize)) < top) { + if (ext4_check_dir_entry(dir, NULL, de, bh2, data2, len, + (data2 + (blocksize - csum_size) - + (char *) de))) { + brelse(bh2); + brelse(bh); + return -EFSCORRUPTED; + } de = de2; + } de->rec_len = ext4_rec_len_to_disk(data2 + (blocksize - csum_size) - (char *) de, blocksize); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from lhenriques@xxxxxxx are queue-6.0/ext4-fix-bug_on-when-directory-entry-has-invalid-rec_len.patch