From: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
To: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Robbie Ko <robbieko@synology.com>,
	Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>,
	Chuck Lever <cel@kernel.org>,
	Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 5.15.y 4/4] nfsd: reject out-of-range nseconds in NFSv3 SETATTR and create ops
Date: Sun,  6 Sep 2026 09:28:35 -0400
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From: Robbie Ko <robbieko@synology.com>

[ Upstream commit eb0eca7720662ba5847df1510e73801f7f473094 ]

A client can send an NFSv3 SETATTR, CREATE, MKDIR, SYMLINK or MKNOD
carrying an atime or mtime whose nseconds field is out of range. The
value is well-formed on the wire and decodes cleanly into a valid
uint32, but it is not a valid timespec64: tv_nsec must be less than
NSEC_PER_SEC.

Nothing in the setattr path clamps it. notify_change() runs the time
through timestamp_truncate(), which does not reduce tv_nsec below
NSEC_PER_SEC when the filesystem supports nanosecond granularity
(s_time_gran == 1), and the inode atime/mtime setters store it verbatim
(only ctime is normalized, via inode_set_ctime_to_ts()). The
un-normalized value then corrupts on-disk metadata: ext4's
ext4_encode_extra_time() shifts tv_nsec left by EXT4_EPOCH_BITS, which
overflows the 32-bit extra field and clobbers the seconds-epoch bits, so
the stored seconds (and thus the year) are wrong on read-back. XFS with
bigtime mis-stores the timestamp for the same reason.

Validate the client-supplied atime/mtime in the proc handlers and return
NFS3ERR_INVAL before anything is changed. RFC 1813 lists NFS3ERR_INVAL
for SETATTR and describes it as the error for a value the server 'can
not store ... in its own representation'; the client maps it to EINVAL.

Checking in the proc handlers, rather than in nfsd_setattr(), keeps the
rejection in front of object creation. The create operations create the
object before nfsd_create_setattr() runs, so a late failure would leave
the new object behind and turn a non-idempotent request into a namespace
change that reports failure. The check is therefore done up front, for
the create operations before the object is created.

tv_nsec is a long, so the comparison casts it to unsigned long (the same
width) rather than to u32, matching timespec64_valid(). A u32 cast would
truncate on 64-bit; the unsigned long cast also rejects a value that
became negative when an out-of-range u32 wire nseconds was assigned to a
32-bit long.

Only client-supplied times are checked: SET_TO_SERVER_TIME requests
carry no client value. The sattrguard3 ctime is deliberately left alone:
an out-of-range guard simply never matches the object's ctime and yields
NFS3ERR_NOT_SYNC via the existing guardtime comparison, which is the
protocol-correct outcome rather than rejecting the request.

Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Robbie Ko <robbieko@synology.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260616054027.2360930-2-robbieko@synology.com
Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <cel@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
 fs/nfsd/nfs3proc.c | 40 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 40 insertions(+)

diff --git a/fs/nfsd/nfs3proc.c b/fs/nfsd/nfs3proc.c
index 3abb2923192ad..944d99be61c64 100644
--- a/fs/nfsd/nfs3proc.c
+++ b/fs/nfsd/nfs3proc.c
@@ -28,6 +28,25 @@ static int	nfs3_ftypes[] = {
 	S_IFIFO,		/* NF3FIFO */
 };
 
+/*
+ * Reject a client-supplied atime or mtime whose nanoseconds field is out
+ * of range. Such a value is well-formed on the wire but is not a valid
+ * timespec64, and storing it verbatim can corrupt on-disk timestamps.
+ * tv_nsec is a long, so it is cast to unsigned long (the same width) to
+ * catch both an over-large value and one that became negative when an
+ * out-of-range u32 wire nseconds was assigned to a 32-bit long.
+ */
+static bool nfsd3_time_in_range(const struct iattr *iap)
+{
+	if ((iap->ia_valid & ATTR_ATIME_SET) &&
+	    (unsigned long)iap->ia_atime.tv_nsec >= NSEC_PER_SEC)
+		return false;
+	if ((iap->ia_valid & ATTR_MTIME_SET) &&
+	    (unsigned long)iap->ia_mtime.tv_nsec >= NSEC_PER_SEC)
+		return false;
+	return true;
+}
+
 static __be32 nfsd3_map_status(__be32 status)
 {
 	switch (status) {
@@ -94,9 +113,14 @@ nfsd3_proc_setattr(struct svc_rqst *rqstp)
 				SVCFH_fmt(&argp->fh));
 
 	fh_copy(&resp->fh, &argp->fh);
+	if (!nfsd3_time_in_range(&argp->attrs)) {
+		resp->status = nfserr_inval;
+		goto out;
+	}
 	if (argp->check_guard)
 		guardtime = &argp->guardtime;
 	resp->status = nfsd_setattr(rqstp, &resp->fh, &attrs, guardtime);
+out:
 	resp->status = nfsd3_map_status(resp->status);
 	return rpc_success;
 }
@@ -272,6 +296,8 @@ nfsd3_create_file(struct svc_rqst *rqstp, struct svc_fh *fhp,
 
 	/* Validation hooks belong here, before name checks and object creation. */
 
+	if (!nfsd3_time_in_range(iap))
+		return nfserr_inval;
 	if (isdotent(argp->name, argp->len))
 		return nfserr_exist;
 	if (!(iap->ia_valid & ATTR_MODE))
@@ -417,8 +443,13 @@ nfsd3_proc_mkdir(struct svc_rqst *rqstp)
 	argp->attrs.ia_valid &= ~ATTR_SIZE;
 	fh_copy(&resp->dirfh, &argp->fh);
 	fh_init(&resp->fh, NFS3_FHSIZE);
+	if (!nfsd3_time_in_range(&argp->attrs)) {
+		resp->status = nfserr_inval;
+		goto out;
+	}
 	resp->status = nfsd_create(rqstp, &resp->dirfh, argp->name, argp->len,
 				   &attrs, S_IFDIR, 0, &resp->fh);
+out:
 	resp->status = nfsd3_map_status(resp->status);
 	return rpc_success;
 }
@@ -432,6 +463,10 @@ nfsd3_proc_symlink(struct svc_rqst *rqstp)
 		.na_iattr	= &argp->attrs,
 	};
 
+	if (!nfsd3_time_in_range(&argp->attrs)) {
+		resp->status = nfserr_inval;
+		goto out;
+	}
 	if (argp->tlen == 0) {
 		resp->status = nfserr_inval;
 		goto out;
@@ -498,6 +533,11 @@ nfsd3_proc_mknod(struct svc_rqst *rqstp)
 		goto out;
 	}
 
+	if (!nfsd3_time_in_range(&argp->attrs)) {
+		resp->status = nfserr_inval;
+		goto out;
+	}
+
 	type = nfs3_ftypes[argp->ftype];
 	resp->status = nfsd_create(rqstp, &resp->dirfh, argp->name, argp->len,
 				   &attrs, type, rdev, &resp->fh);
-- 
2.53.0