On Tue, Mar 22, 2022 at 2:38 PM Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote: > > From: Dongliang Mu <mudongliangabcd@gmail.com> > Subject: ntfs: add sanity check on allocation size > > ntfs_read_inode_mount invokes ntfs_malloc_nofs with zero allocation size. > It triggers one BUG in the __ntfs_malloc function. Hmm. A more serious issue seems to be that cast to (u32). ntfs_attr_size(a) returns a 's64', so it just randomly truncates a possibly bad value.. Linus
--- a/fs/ntfs/inode.c~ntfs-add-sanity-check-on-allocation-size +++ a/fs/ntfs/inode.c @@ -1881,6 +1881,10 @@ int ntfs_read_inode_mount(struct inode * } /* Now allocate memory for the attribute list. */ ni->attr_list_size = (u32)ntfs_attr_size(a); + if (!ni->attr_list_size) { + ntfs_error(sb, "Attr_list_size is zero"); + goto put_err_out; + } ni->attr_list = ntfs_malloc_nofs(ni->attr_list_size); if (!ni->attr_list) { ntfs_error(sb, "Not enough memory to allocate buffer "