FAILED: patch "[PATCH] nilfs2: reject invalid block index in GC ioctl" failed to apply to 5.10-stable tree

The patch below does not apply to the 5.10-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit id to <[email protected]>.

To reproduce the conflict and resubmit, you may use the following commands:

git fetch https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/ linux-5.10.y
git checkout FETCH_HEAD
git cherry-pick -x a1735eae55448bc79c2da6593455791e886f6ed8
# <resolve conflicts, build, test, etc.>
git commit -s
git send-email --to '<[email protected]>' --in-reply-to '2026082455-batch-papyrus-5e86@gregkh' --subject-prefix 'PATCH 5.10.y' 'HEAD^..'

Possible dependencies:

thanks,

greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

From a1735eae55448bc79c2da6593455791e886f6ed8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ryusuke Konishi <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2026 01:07:19 +0900
Subject: [PATCH] nilfs2: reject invalid block index in GC ioctl

Syzbot reported list corruption caused by a double list_add_tail() call on bh->b_assoc_buffers within nilfs_lookup_dirty_data_buffers().

Analysis revealed that the root cause was the insertion of a page/folio with a page index of ULONG_MAX into the page cache via the GC ioctl. filemap_get_folios_tag(), called by nilfs_lookup_dirty_data_buffers(), repeatedly detects a dirty folio with a page index of ULONG_MAX due to index wrap-around, leading to duplicate processing of dirty buffers.

As a preparatory step, the GC ioctl loads the page/folio of the block to be moved during GC and inserts it into the page cache based on information in the nilfs_vdesc structure passed as an argument. Normally, this does not cause issues because the user-space GC library configures the nilfs_vdesc structure properly. However, since there is no range check on the parameters determining the page index, a request with artificially crafted parameters -- such as those generated by Syzbot -- can result in a page/folio being inserted with a page index of ULONG_MAX, triggering the above problem.

This resolves the issue by checking the ranges of 'vd_offset' and 'vd_vblocknr' in the nilfs_vdesc structure that determine the page index, thereby preventing the invalid page/folio insertions.

index b73f2c5d10f0..0957316e58b8 100644
@@ -527,6 +527,7 @@ static int nilfs_ioctl_get_bdescs(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp,
  * Return: 0 on success, or one of the following negative error codes on
  * failure:
  * * %-EEXIST	- Block conflict detected.
+ * * %-EINVAL	- Invalid virtual block descriptor.
  * * %-EIO	- I/O error.
  * * %-ENOENT	- Requested block doesn't exist.
  * * %-ENOMEM	- Insufficient memory available.

@@ -536,15 +537,30 @@ static int nilfs_ioctl_move_inode_block(struct inode *inode,
 					struct list_head *buffers)
 {
 	struct buffer_head *bh;
+	__u64 limit_blkidx = (__u64)inode->i_sb->s_maxbytes >> inode->i_blkbits;
 	int ret;
 
-	if (vdesc->vd_flags == 0)
+	/*
+	 * vblocknr 0 is reserved as an invalid pointer.  Also, limit_blkidx
+	 * ensures that the page index converted from vd_vblocknr never
+	 * overflows the page cache limit and respects the architecture's bmap
+	 * key width.
+	 */
+	if (unlikely(vdesc->vd_vblocknr == 0 ||
+			vdesc->vd_vblocknr >= limit_blkidx))
+		return -EINVAL;
+
+	if (vdesc->vd_flags == 0) {
+		if (unlikely(vdesc->vd_offset >= limit_blkidx))
+			return -EINVAL;
+
 		ret = nilfs_gccache_submit_read_data(
 			inode, vdesc->vd_offset, vdesc->vd_blocknr,
 			vdesc->vd_vblocknr, &bh);
-	else
+	} else {
 		ret = nilfs_gccache_submit_read_node(
 			inode, vdesc->vd_blocknr, vdesc->vd_vblocknr, &bh);
+	}
 
 	if (unlikely(ret < 0)) {
 		if (ret == -ENOENT)

From: Ryusuke Konishi <[email protected]>

[ Upstream commit a1735eae55448bc79c2da6593455791e886f6ed8 ]

Syzbot reported list corruption caused by a double list_add_tail() call on bh->b_assoc_buffers within nilfs_lookup_dirty_data_buffers().

Analysis revealed that the root cause was the insertion of a page/folio with a page index of ULONG_MAX into the page cache via the GC ioctl. filemap_get_folios_tag(), called by nilfs_lookup_dirty_data_buffers(), repeatedly detects a dirty folio with a page index of ULONG_MAX due to index wrap-around, leading to duplicate processing of dirty buffers.

As a preparatory step, the GC ioctl loads the page/folio of the block to be moved during GC and inserts it into the page cache based on information in the nilfs_vdesc structure passed as an argument. Normally, this does not cause issues because the user-space GC library configures the nilfs_vdesc structure properly. However, since there is no range check on the parameters determining the page index, a request with artificially crafted parameters -- such as those generated by Syzbot -- can result in a page/folio being inserted with a page index of ULONG_MAX, triggering the above problem.

This resolves the issue by checking the ranges of 'vd_offset' and 'vd_vblocknr' in the nilfs_vdesc structure that determine the page index, thereby preventing the invalid page/folio insertions.

---
 fs/nilfs2/ioctl.c | 21 +++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

index e56e871927417..9f10a9cec3e0a 100644
@@ -544,6 +544,8 @@ static int nilfs_ioctl_get_bdescs(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp,
  * Return Value: On success, 0 is returned. On error, one of the following
  * negative error codes is returned.
  *
+ * %-EINVAL - Invalid virtual block descriptor.
+ *
  * %-EIO - I/O error.
  *
  * %-ENOMEM - Insufficient amount of memory available.

@@ -557,15 +559,30 @@ static int nilfs_ioctl_move_inode_block(struct inode *inode,
 					struct list_head *buffers)
 {
 	struct buffer_head *bh;
+	__u64 limit_blkidx = (__u64)inode->i_sb->s_maxbytes >> inode->i_blkbits;
 	int ret;
 
-	if (vdesc->vd_flags == 0)
+	/*
+	 * vblocknr 0 is reserved as an invalid pointer.  Also, limit_blkidx
+	 * ensures that the page index converted from vd_vblocknr never
+	 * overflows the page cache limit and respects the architecture's bmap
+	 * key width.
+	 */
+	if (unlikely(vdesc->vd_vblocknr == 0 ||
+			vdesc->vd_vblocknr >= limit_blkidx))
+		return -EINVAL;
+
+	if (vdesc->vd_flags == 0) {
+		if (unlikely(vdesc->vd_offset >= limit_blkidx))
+			return -EINVAL;
+
 		ret = nilfs_gccache_submit_read_data(
 			inode, vdesc->vd_offset, vdesc->vd_blocknr,
 			vdesc->vd_vblocknr, &bh);
-	else
+	} else {
 		ret = nilfs_gccache_submit_read_node(
 			inode, vdesc->vd_blocknr, vdesc->vd_vblocknr, &bh);
+	}
 
 	if (unlikely(ret < 0)) {
 		if (ret == -ENOENT)

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