ext4: fix off-by-one error in do_split

jira VULN-66676
cve CVE-2025-23150
commit-author Artem Sadovnikov <[email protected]>
commit 94824ac

Syzkaller detected a use-after-free issue in ext4_insert_dentry that was
caused by out-of-bounds access due to incorrect splitting in do_split.

BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in ext4_insert_dentry+0x36a/0x6d0 fs/ext4/namei.c:2109
Write of size 251 at addr ffff888074572f14 by task syz-executor335/5847

CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 5847 Comm: syz-executor335 Not tainted 6.12.0-rc6-syzkaller-00318-ga9cda7c0ffed #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 10/30/2024
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:94 [inline]
 dump_stack_lvl+0x241/0x360 lib/dump_stack.c:120
 print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:377 [inline]
 print_report+0x169/0x550 mm/kasan/report.c:488
 kasan_report+0x143/0x180 mm/kasan/report.c:601
 kasan_check_range+0x282/0x290 mm/kasan/generic.c:189
 __asan_memcpy+0x40/0x70 mm/kasan/shadow.c:106
 ext4_insert_dentry+0x36a/0x6d0 fs/ext4/namei.c:2109
 add_dirent_to_buf+0x3d9/0x750 fs/ext4/namei.c:2154
 make_indexed_dir+0xf98/0x1600 fs/ext4/namei.c:2351
 ext4_add_entry+0x222a/0x25d0 fs/ext4/namei.c:2455
 ext4_add_nondir+0x8d/0x290 fs/ext4/namei.c:2796
 ext4_symlink+0x920/0xb50 fs/ext4/namei.c:3431
 vfs_symlink+0x137/0x2e0 fs/namei.c:4615
 do_symlinkat+0x222/0x3a0 fs/namei.c:4641
 __do_sys_symlink fs/namei.c:4662 [inline]
 __se_sys_symlink fs/namei.c:4660 [inline]
 __x64_sys_symlink+0x7a/0x90 fs/namei.c:4660
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0xf3/0x230 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
 </TASK>

The following loop is located right above 'if' statement.

for (i = count-1; i >= 0; i--) {
	/* is more than half of this entry in 2nd half of the block? */
	if (size + map[i].size/2 > blocksize/2)
		break;
	size += map[i].size;
	move++;
}

'i' in this case could go down to -1, in which case sum of active entries
wouldn't exceed half the block size, but previous behaviour would also do
split in half if sum would exceed at the very last block, which in case of
having too many long name files in a single block could lead to
out-of-bounds access and following use-after-free.

Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with Syzkaller.

	Cc: [email protected]
Fixes: 5872331 ("ext4: fix potential negative array index in do_split()")
	Signed-off-by: Artem Sadovnikov <[email protected]>
	Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <[email protected]>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/[email protected]
	Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <[email protected]>
(cherry picked from commit 94824ac)
	Signed-off-by: Shreeya Patel <[email protected]>

Author: shreeya-patel98

fs/ext4/namei.c

@@ -2020,7 +2020,7 @@ static struct ext4_dir_entry_2 *do_split(handle_t *handle, struct inode *dir,
 	 * split it in half by count; each resulting block will have at least
 	 * half the space free.
 	 */
-	if (i > 0)
+	if (i >= 0)
 		split = count - move;
 	else
 		split = count/2;