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HIGH Introduced in 2.6.32

ocfs2 RefcountBlock OOB

CVE-2026-89493

CVSS 8.8 / 10.0 NVD

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

KernelScan AI6.7MEDIUM

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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ocfs2: validate rl_used against rl_count in refcount block validator ocfs2_find_refcount_rec_in_rl() walks the on-disk refcount record array with: for (; i < le16_to_cpu(rb->rf_records.rl_used); i++) { rec = &rb->rf_records.rl_recs[i]; ... rl_recs[] lives in a single metadata block (4096 bytes on the common configuration), so its real capacity is fixed by ocfs2_refcount_recs_per_rb(sb) (247 records for a 4K block with the 16-byte ocfs2_refcount_rec). rl_used and rl_count are both read directly off disk by ocfs2_validate_refcount_block() and are never checked against that capacity, nor against each other, before any refcount/reflink/CoW operation walks the array. A crafted (or corrupted) refcount block with rl_used == 0xffff makes the loop above walk far past the end of the block, dereferencing rl_recs[i] for i up to 65534. The resulting index is then handed to the sibling ocfs2_insert_refcount_rec(), whose insert-shift does: if (index < le16_to_cpu(rf_list->rl_used)) memmove(&rf_list->rl_recs[index + 1], &rf_list->rl_recs[index], (le16_to_cpu(rf_list->rl_used) - index) * sizeof(struct ocfs2_refcount_rec)); i.e. a memmove() of up to (0xffff - index) * 16 bytes (~1 MiB) from an offset already past the block. This is reachable from an ordinary reflink (FICLONE) against a crafted/corrupted ocfs2 image: attaching an extent whose cpos sorts past every real record in the leaf forces the lookup to run off the end instead of returning early on a match. The attacker model is local: CAP_SYS_ADMIN mounting a crafted or corrupted ocfs2 image, or a raw write to the block device backing an already-mounted ocfs2 filesystem. ocfs2_validate_refcount_block() already validates the block's ECC, signature, rf_blkno and rf_fs_generation, but never rl_count/rl_used against the block's actual on-disk capacity. This is the same class of gap that ocfs2_validate_extent_block() (fs/ocfs2/alloc.c) already closes for the sibling extent-list header, which checks both the record capacity and the "used" bound before any code walks h_list.l_recs[]: if (le16_to_cpu(eb->h_list.l_count) != ocfs2_extent_recs_per_eb(sb)) { rc = ocfs2_error(...); goto bail; } if (le16_to_cpu(eb->h_list.l_next_free_rec) > le16_to_cpu(eb->h_list.l_count)) { rc = ocfs2_error(...); goto bail; } Add the equivalent pair of checks to ocfs2_validate_refcount_block(): reject a refcount block whose rl_count does not match the fixed per-block capacity returned by ocfs2_refcount_recs_per_rb(), and reject rl_used > rl_count. Both checks are skipped when OCFS2_REFCOUNT_TREE_FL is set, because in that case the same union bytes hold an ocfs2_extent_list (rf_list), not the refcount record list (rf_records) -- that layout is already validated separately by ocfs2_validate_extent_block() when the referenced extent block is read. This mirrors the existing "!(rb->rf_flags & OCFS2_REFCOUNT_TREE_FL)" guard used elsewhere in this file (e.g. ocfs2_get_refcount_rec()) to decide whether rf_records or rf_list is the live member of the union. With this in place, a forged rl_used/rl_count is caught at block validation time (ocfs2_error()), consistent with every other corruption check in this function, instead of driving an out-of-bounds read in ocfs2_find_refcount_rec_in_rl() and a subsequent out-of-bounds memmove() in ocfs2_insert_refcount_rec(). Verified against a crafted image on a v6.19 KASAN (KASAN_GENERIC) build: replaying the same reflink (FICLONE) reliably hit a KASAN report in __ocfs2_increase_refcount()/ocfs2_insert_refcount_rec() before this patch, and triggers no report once ocfs2_validate_refcount_block() rejects the forged rl_used/rl_count.

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Engine v0.6.0

Risk summary

A crafted or corrupted ocfs2 filesystem image can trigger out-of-bounds memory access in the kernel when a reflink operation walks a refcount record array with forged bounds. The vulnerability requires local access with CAP_SYS_ADMIN to mount the image or write to the backing block device. Successful exploitation can corrupt kernel heap memory, leading to information disclosure, privilege escalation beyond the existing capabilities, or a system crash.

Affectedfs/ocfs2/refcounttree.c (ocfs2 filesystem)

Vulnerability analysis

The ocfs2 refcount block validator reads the on-disk record-count and record-used fields without checking them against the fixed capacity of a single metadata block or against each other. When a crafted image supplies an inflated record-used value, the refcount lookup loop walks far past the end of the block, and a subsequent insert operation performs a memmove of up to roughly one megabyte from out-of-bounds memory, corrupting kernel heap. The fix adds validation at block-read time to reject any refcount block whose record capacity does not match the per-block limit or whose used count exceeds the capacity, mirroring checks already present for the sibling extent-block structure. The vulnerable path is reachable locally by an attacker who has CAP_SYS_ADMIN to mount a crafted ocfs2 image or who can write directly to the block device backing a mounted ocfs2 filesystem.

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BranchIntroducedFixed inPatch commit
6.182.6.326.18.500761d2c94944
6.12.6.326.1.188c8b02f4ee91e
5.102.6.325.10.270f882e9e32d01
5.152.6.325.15.2215593b63028cb
6.62.6.326.6.15797584e93fc49
6.122.6.326.12.109af56e90cb546
7.22.6.327.2.404ead708e13d
mainline2.6.327.3-rc14ca62df6bc07
cip/6.122.6.326.12.111-cip32af56e90cb546