ntfs_check_restart_area() validates that the $LogFile restart area and its trailing log client record array fit within the system page size: u16 ra_ofs, ra_len, ca_ofs; ... ra_len = ca_ofs + le16_to_cpu(ra->log_clients) * sizeof(struct log_client_record); if (ra_ofs + ra_len > le32_to_cpu(rp->system_page_size) || ...) return false; ra_len is u16, but the right-hand side is computed in size_t (sizeof(struct log_client_record) == 160). Both ca_ofs and log_clients come straight from the on-disk restart area. With an on-disk log_clients of 410 the product 410 * 160 = 65600; adding ca_ofs and storing into the u16 ra_len truncates modulo 65536 (e.g. ca_ofs 64 gives ra_len 128), so the "fits in the page" check passes even though the client array described by log_clients extends far beyond the page. ntfs_check_log_client_array() then walks the array bounded only by the on-disk log_clients count: cr = ca + idx; if (cr->prev_client != LOGFILE_NO_CLIENT) ... For log_clients 410 it dereferences records up to ca + 409 * 160, ~64 KiB past the kvzalloc(system_page_size) restart-page buffer -- an out-of-bounds read of attacker-controlled extent, reachable when a crafted NTFS image is mounted (load_and_check_logfile() at mount time). This is the in-kernel analogue of CVE-2022-30789, fixed in the ntfs-3g userspace driver but never in this revived classic driver. Compute the restart-area length in a u32 so the existing bounds check rejects an over-large client array instead of being defeated by the truncation. Widen ra_ofs and ca_ofs to u32 as well: both are loaded from __le16 on-disk fields and every comparison already promotes to int/size_t, so this changes no result and keeps the declaration uniform. Fixes: 1e9ea7e04472 ("Revert \"fs: Remove NTFS classic\"") Signed-off-by: Bryam Vargas --- v2: widen all three locals (ra_ofs, ra_len, ca_ofs) to u32, not just ra_len, per David Laight's review. The fs_bits/ilog2() cleanup David suggested will follow as a separate patch (the current loop computes ilog2()+1, so it is not a drop-in). v1 went out quoted-printable via Proton Mail; this is resent as plain text. Reproduced on a KASAN build (in-kernel ntfs, fresh-boot slab) by mounting a crafted image whose $LogFile restart area sets log_clients=410 (ra_len truncates to a value that passes the system-page-size check): BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in ntfs_check_logfile+0x1e52/0x2460 [ntfs] Read of size 2 ... by task mount (cr->prev_client, with ntfs_check_log_client_array() inlined) ntfs_fill_super -> ntfs_iget -> ntfs_check_logfile Allocated by task ...: __kasan_kmalloc -- the kvzalloc(system_page_size) restart-page buffer (the OOB read lands at buffer_base + system_page_size) With this patch the same image is rejected by the existing ntfs_check_restart_area() bound (ra_len is no longer truncated), so ntfs_check_log_client_array() is never reached, no OOB access occurs, and the mount fails over to read-only. A clean image is unaffected. Full A/B logs available on request. fs/ntfs/logfile.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/ntfs/logfile.c b/fs/ntfs/logfile.c --- a/fs/ntfs/logfile.c +++ b/fs/ntfs/logfile.c @@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ static bool ntfs_check_restart_area(struct inode *vi, struct restart_page_header *rp) { u64 file_size; struct restart_area *ra; - u16 ra_ofs, ra_len, ca_ofs; + u32 ra_ofs, ra_len, ca_ofs; u8 fs_bits; ntfs_debug("Entering."); -- 2.43.0