For casefolded encrypted directories ext4 stores an 8-byte hash trailer after the name (EXT4_DIRENT_HASHES()), at an offset derived from de->name_len. On the sb_no_casefold_compat_fallback() path ext4_match() reads that trailer, but ext4_search_dir()'s by-hand pre-check only tests de->name + de->name_len <= dlimit, which proves the name fits, not the rounded trailer. A crafted entry whose name ends at the block boundary passes the check while EXT4_DIRENT_HASHES(de) lands past the block end, so ext4_match() reads out of bounds on an ordinary lookup. KASAN reports it as a use-after-free when the page after the directory block holds a freed object: BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in ext4_match (fs/ext4/namei.c:1435) Read of size 4 at addr ffff888010458000 by task exploit Call Trace: ext4_match (fs/ext4/namei.c:1435) ext4_search_dir (fs/ext4/namei.c:1470) __ext4_find_entry (fs/ext4/namei.c:1268 fs/ext4/namei.c:1632) ext4_lookup (fs/ext4/namei.c:1703 fs/ext4/namei.c:1769) ... filename_lookup (fs/namei.c:2842) vfs_statx (fs/stat.c:353) __do_sys_newfstatat (fs/stat.c:538) do_syscall_64 (arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94) entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe (arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:121) Require, for hash-in-dirent directories, that the whole entry including the rounded trailer fits before calling ext4_match(). This is the same bound ext4_check_dir_entry() already enforces via ext4_dir_rec_len(), so no well-formed entry is rejected. The other caller, ext4_find_dest_de(), runs ext4_check_dir_entry() first and is unaffected. Fixes: 471fbbea7ff7 ("ext4: handle casefolding with encryption") Reported-by: Weiming Shi Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8 Signed-off-by: Xiang Mei --- fs/ext4/namei.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/fs/ext4/namei.c b/fs/ext4/namei.c index cc49ae04a6f6..3b9740c1c16d 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/namei.c +++ b/fs/ext4/namei.c @@ -1467,6 +1467,8 @@ int ext4_search_dir(struct buffer_head *bh, char *search_buf, int buf_size, /* this code is executed quadratically often */ /* do minimal checking `by hand' */ if (de->name + de->name_len <= dlimit && + (!ext4_hash_in_dirent(dir) || + (char *)de + ext4_dir_rec_len(de->name_len, dir) <= dlimit) && ext4_match(dir, fname, de)) { /* found a match - just to be sure, do * a full check */ -- 2.43.0