ocfs2: reject dinodes with non-canonical i_mode type

Patch series "ocfs2: harden inode validators against forged metadata", v2.

This series adds three structural checks to OCFS2 dinode validation so
malformed on-disk fields are rejected before ocfs2_populate_inode() copies
them into the in-core inode.

The checks cover:

  - i_mode values whose type bits do not name a canonical POSIX file
    type;
  - non-device dinodes whose id1.dev1.i_rdev field is non-zero; and
  - non-inline dinodes that claim non-zero i_size while i_clusters is
    zero, covering directories unconditionally and regular files on
    non-sparse volumes.

The normal read path reports these through ocfs2_error(), matching the
existing suballoc-slot, inline-data, chain-list, and refcount checks.  The
online filecheck path uses the same structural predicates but keeps its
own reporting contract, returning OCFS2_FILECHECK_ERR_INVALIDINO instead
of calling ocfs2_error().


This patch (of 3):

ocfs2_validate_inode_block() currently accepts any non-zero i_mode value. 
ocfs2_populate_inode() then copies that mode verbatim into inode->i_mode
and dispatches on i_mode & S_IFMT to the file/dir/symlink/special_file
iops; an unrecognised type falls through to ocfs2_special_file_iops and
init_special_inode().

Reject dinodes whose type bits do not name one of the seven canonical
POSIX file types.  Use fs_umode_to_ftype(), the same generic file-type
conversion helper OCFS2 already uses for directory entries, so the
accepted inode type set matches the kernel file-type vocabulary instead of
open-coding a local switch.

Apply the same structural check to the online filecheck read path. 
filecheck keeps its own error namespace, so it reports malformed i_mode
through the filecheck logger and OCFS2_FILECHECK_ERR_INVALIDINO instead of
calling ocfs2_error(), but it must not allow a malformed dinode to proceed
into ocfs2_populate_inode().

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260519110404.1803902-1-michael.bommarito@gmail.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260519110404.1803902-2-michael.bommarito@gmail.com
Fixes: b657c95c11 ("ocfs2: Wrap inode block reads in a dedicated function.")
Signed-off-by: Michael Bommarito <michael.bommarito@gmail.com>
Link: https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260517111015.3187935-1-michael.bommarito%40gmail.com
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
Reviewed-by: Joseph Qi <joseph.qi@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Changwei Ge <gechangwei@live.cn>
Cc: Heming Zhao <heming.zhao@suse.com>
Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>
Cc: Jun Piao <piaojun@huawei.com>
Cc: Junxiao Bi <junxiao.bi@oracle.com>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mark@fasheh.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
This commit is contained in:
Michael Bommarito 2026-05-19 07:04:02 -04:00 committed by Andrew Morton
parent 4d80db59de
commit 5366a01709

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@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
#include <linux/pagemap.h>
#include <linux/quotaops.h>
#include <linux/iversion.h>
#include <linux/fs_dirent.h>
#include <asm/byteorder.h>
@ -64,7 +65,12 @@ static int ocfs2_filecheck_read_inode_block_full(struct inode *inode,
static int ocfs2_filecheck_validate_inode_block(struct super_block *sb,
struct buffer_head *bh);
static int ocfs2_filecheck_repair_inode_block(struct super_block *sb,
struct buffer_head *bh);
struct buffer_head *bh);
static bool ocfs2_valid_inode_mode(umode_t mode)
{
return fs_umode_to_ftype(mode) != FT_UNKNOWN;
}
void ocfs2_set_inode_flags(struct inode *inode)
{
@ -1494,6 +1500,24 @@ int ocfs2_validate_inode_block(struct super_block *sb,
goto bail;
}
/*
* Reject dinodes whose i_mode does not name one of the seven
* canonical POSIX file types. ocfs2_populate_inode() copies
* i_mode verbatim into inode->i_mode and then dispatches via
* switch (mode & S_IFMT) to file/dir/symlink/special_file iops;
* an unrecognised type falls into ocfs2_special_file_iops with
* init_special_inode(), which interprets i_rdev. Constrain the
* type here so the dispatch only ever sees a value mkfs.ocfs2 /
* VFS can produce.
*/
if (!ocfs2_valid_inode_mode(le16_to_cpu(di->i_mode))) {
rc = ocfs2_error(sb,
"Invalid dinode #%llu: mode 0%o has unknown file type\n",
(unsigned long long)bh->b_blocknr,
le16_to_cpu(di->i_mode));
goto bail;
}
if (le16_to_cpu(di->i_dyn_features) & OCFS2_INLINE_DATA_FL) {
struct ocfs2_inline_data *data = &di->id2.i_data;
@ -1624,6 +1648,15 @@ static int ocfs2_filecheck_validate_inode_block(struct super_block *sb,
(unsigned long long)bh->b_blocknr,
le32_to_cpu(di->i_fs_generation));
rc = -OCFS2_FILECHECK_ERR_GENERATION;
goto bail;
}
if (!ocfs2_valid_inode_mode(le16_to_cpu(di->i_mode))) {
mlog(ML_ERROR,
"Filecheck: invalid dinode #%llu: mode 0%o has unknown file type\n",
(unsigned long long)bh->b_blocknr,
le16_to_cpu(di->i_mode));
rc = -OCFS2_FILECHECK_ERR_INVALIDINO;
}
bail:
@ -1812,4 +1845,3 @@ const struct ocfs2_caching_operations ocfs2_inode_caching_ops = {
.co_io_lock = ocfs2_inode_cache_io_lock,
.co_io_unlock = ocfs2_inode_cache_io_unlock,
};