FAILED: patch "[PATCH] xfs: bound da-node entry count against the correct geometry" failed to apply to 6.6-stable tree

The patch below does not apply to the 6.6-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-6.6.y
git checkout FETCH_HEAD
git cherry-pick -x 3df5e5aaa3bc0913236c48ab29b7df3a785aa29f
# <resolve conflicts, build, test, etc.>
git commit -s
git send-email --to '<[email protected]>' --in-reply-to '2026110405-unleaded-ongoing-7d17@gregkh' --subject-prefix 'PATCH 6.6.y' 'HEAD^..'

Possible dependencies:

thanks,

greg k-h

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

From 3df5e5aaa3bc0913236c48ab29b7df3a785aa29f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Aldo Ariel Panzardo <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2026 08:57:54 -0300
Subject: [PATCH] xfs: bound da-node entry count against the correct geometry

xfs_da3_node_verify() bounds the node entry count against the larger of the directory and attribute geometries because, as a buffer verifier, it cannot tell whether the block belongs to the directory or the attribute tree. When the directory block size exceeds the fs block size (e.g. mkfs.xfs -n size=64k -b size=4k), an attribute node buffer is a single fs block that holds only m_attr_geo->node_ents entries, yet a crafted attr node may claim a count up to m_dir_geo->node_ents and still pass the verifier.

xfs_da3_node_lookup_int() then indexes btree[] up to that count during its binary search -- an out-of-bounds read via getxattr/listxattr on a mounted crafted image.

The buffer verifier is the wrong place to tighten this: it has no fork context, and the transaction-less read path used by getxattr does not run xfs_da3_node_set_type() either. xfs_da3_node_lookup_int(), on the other hand, always runs on that path and holds args->geo, the geometry of the fork actually being searched. Bound the entry count against args->geo->node_ents there, before walking the entries.

index 3d02a0d7ba44..faf88488265c 100644
@@ -1787,6 +1787,20 @@ xfs_da3_node_lookup_int(
 		} else
 			expected_level--;
 
+		/*
+		 * The node verifier cannot tell whether this block belongs to
+		 * the directory or the attribute tree, so it only bounds the
+		 * entry count against the larger of the two geometries.  Here
+		 * args->geo is the geometry of the fork we are actually
+		 * searching, so reject a count that would walk btree[] off the
+		 * end of this node buffer.
+		 */
+		if (nodehdr.count > args->geo->node_ents) {
+			xfs_buf_mark_corrupt(blk->bp);
+			xfs_da_mark_sick(args);
+			return -EFSCORRUPTED;
+		}
+
 		max = nodehdr.count;
 		blk->hashval = be32_to_cpu(btree[max - 1].hashval);
 

From: Aldo Ariel Panzardo <[email protected]>

[ Upstream commit 3df5e5aaa3bc0913236c48ab29b7df3a785aa29f ]

xfs_da3_node_verify() bounds the node entry count against the larger of the directory and attribute geometries because, as a buffer verifier, it cannot tell whether the block belongs to the directory or the attribute tree. When the directory block size exceeds the fs block size (e.g. mkfs.xfs -n size=64k -b size=4k), an attribute node buffer is a single fs block that holds only m_attr_geo->node_ents entries, yet a crafted attr node may claim a count up to m_dir_geo->node_ents and still pass the verifier.

xfs_da3_node_lookup_int() then indexes btree[] up to that count during its binary search -- an out-of-bounds read via getxattr/listxattr on a mounted crafted image.

The buffer verifier is the wrong place to tighten this: it has no fork context, and the transaction-less read path used by getxattr does not run xfs_da3_node_set_type() either. xfs_da3_node_lookup_int(), on the other hand, always runs on that path and holds args->geo, the geometry of the fork actually being searched. Bound the entry count against args->geo->node_ents there, before walking the entries.

---
 fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_da_btree.c | 13 +++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)

index 1efd45076ee2a..7869b3f5c19b3 100644
@@ -1671,6 +1671,19 @@ xfs_da3_node_lookup_int(
 		} else
 			expected_level--;
 
+		/*
+		 * The node verifier cannot tell whether this block belongs to
+		 * the directory or the attribute tree, so it only bounds the
+		 * entry count against the larger of the two geometries.  Here
+		 * args->geo is the geometry of the fork we are actually
+		 * searching, so reject a count that would walk btree[] off the
+		 * end of this node buffer.
+		 */
+		if (nodehdr.count > args->geo->node_ents) {
+			xfs_buf_mark_corrupt(blk->bp);
+			return -EFSCORRUPTED;
+		}
+
 		max = nodehdr.count;
 		blk->hashval = be32_to_cpu(btree[max - 1].hashval);
 

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