Commit 82ebecdc authored Oct 14, 2025 by Jaehun Gou Committed by Namjae Jeon Oct 15, 2025

exfat: fix improper check of dentry.stream.valid_size



We found an infinite loop bug in the exFAT file system that can lead to a
Denial-of-Service (DoS) condition. When a dentry in an exFAT filesystem is
malformed, the following system calls — SYS_openat, SYS_ftruncate, and
SYS_pwrite64 — can cause the kernel to hang.

Root cause analysis shows that the size validation code in exfat_find()
does not check whether dentry.stream.valid_size is negative. As a result,
the system calls mentioned above can succeed and eventually trigger the DoS
issue.

This patch adds a check for negative dentry.stream.valid_size to prevent
this vulnerability.

Co-developed-by: Seunghun Han <kkamagui@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Seunghun Han <kkamagui@gmail.com>
Co-developed-by: Jihoon Kwon <jimmyxyz010315@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jihoon Kwon <jimmyxyz010315@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaehun Gou <p22gone@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Namjae Jeon <linkinjeon@kernel.org>

parent 9b332cec

fs/exfat/namei.c

+5 −1

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		@@ -642,10 +642,14 @@ static int exfat_find(struct inode dir, const struct qstr qname,

		info->type = exfat_get_entry_type(ep);
		info->attr = le16_to_cpu(ep->dentry.file.attr);
		info->size = le64_to_cpu(ep2->dentry.stream.valid_size);
		info->valid_size = le64_to_cpu(ep2->dentry.stream.valid_size);
		info->size = le64_to_cpu(ep2->dentry.stream.size);

		if (info->valid_size < 0) {
		exfat_fs_error(sb, "data valid size is invalid(%lld)", info->valid_size);
		return -EIO;
		}

		if (unlikely(EXFAT_B_TO_CLU_ROUND_UP(info->size, sbi) > sbi->used_clusters)) {
		exfat_fs_error(sb, "data size is invalid(%lld)", info->size);
		return -EIO;