RE: [PATCH v1] exfat: fix reporting fs error when reading dir beyond EOF

From: Sungjong Seo
Date: Wed Dec 28 2022 - 21:29:16 EST


> Since seekdir() does not check whether the position is valid, the
> position may exceed the size of the directory. We found that for
> a directory with discontinuous clusters, if the position exceeds
> the size of the directory and the excess size is greater than or
> equal to the cluster size, exfat_readdir() will return -EIO,
> causing a file system error and making the file system unavailable.
>
> Reproduce this bug by:
>
> seekdir(dir, dir_size + cluster_size);
> dirent = readdir(dir);
>
> The following log will be printed if mount with 'errors=remount-ro'.
>
> [11166.712896] exFAT-fs (sdb1): error, invalid access to FAT (entry
> 0xffffffff)
> [11166.712905] exFAT-fs (sdb1): Filesystem has been set read-only
>
> Fixes: 1e5654de0f51 ("exfat: handle wrong stream entry size in
> exfat_readdir()")
>
> Signed-off-by: Yuezhang Mo <Yuezhang.Mo@xxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Andy Wu <Andy.Wu@xxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Aoyama Wataru <wataru.aoyama@xxxxxxxx>

Looks good. Thanks.

Reviewed-by: Sungjong Seo <sj1557.seo@xxxxxxxxxxx>

> ---
> fs/exfat/dir.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/exfat/dir.c b/fs/exfat/dir.c
> index 1122bee3b634..158427e8124e 100644
> --- a/fs/exfat/dir.c
> +++ b/fs/exfat/dir.c
> @@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ static int exfat_readdir(struct inode *inode, loff_t
> *cpos, struct exfat_dir_ent
> clu.dir = ei->hint_bmap.clu;
> }
>
> - while (clu_offset > 0) {
> + while (clu_offset > 0 && clu.dir != EXFAT_EOF_CLUSTER) {
> if (exfat_get_next_cluster(sb, &(clu.dir)))
> return -EIO;
>
> --
> 2.25.1