[PATCH] erofs-utils: lib: validate inode offset bounds in erofs_read_inode_from_disk()

Utkal Singh singhutkal015 at gmail.com
Thu Mar 5 05:21:21 AEDT 2026


A crafted EROFS image can contain an out-of-range node ID in directory
entries or the superblock root_nid that causes erofs_iloc() to compute
an inode offset beyond the image size. This leads to out-of-bounds
reads in erofs_read_metabuf(), potentially crashing fsck.erofs,
erofsfuse, or dump.erofs.

Add a bounds check at the start of erofs_read_inode_from_disk() to
verify that the computed inode offset plus the minimum on-disk inode
size (erofs_inode_compact) does not exceed the primary device size.
Return -EFSCORRUPTED if the check fails.

This also deduplicates the erofs_iloc() computation which was
previously evaluated twice.

Signed-off-by: Utkal Singh <singhutkal015 at gmail.com>
---
 lib/namei.c | 17 +++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/namei.c b/lib/namei.c
index 896e348..8a83166 100644
--- a/lib/namei.c
+++ b/lib/namei.c
@@ -25,8 +25,9 @@ static dev_t erofs_new_decode_dev(u32 dev)
 int erofs_read_inode_from_disk(struct erofs_inode *vi)
 {
 	struct erofs_sb_info *sbi = vi->sbi;
-	erofs_blk_t blkaddr = erofs_blknr(sbi, erofs_iloc(vi));
-	unsigned int ofs = erofs_blkoff(sbi, erofs_iloc(vi));
+	erofs_off_t inode_loc = erofs_iloc(vi);
+	erofs_blk_t blkaddr;
+	unsigned int ofs;
 	bool in_mbox = erofs_inode_in_metabox(vi);
 	struct erofs_buf buf = __EROFS_BUF_INITIALIZER;
 	erofs_blk_t addrmask = BIT_ULL(48) - 1;
@@ -36,6 +37,18 @@ int erofs_read_inode_from_disk(struct erofs_inode *vi)
 	void *ptr;
 	int err = 0;
 
+	if (!in_mbox && sbi->primarydevice_blocks &&
+	    inode_loc + sizeof(struct erofs_inode_compact) >
+	    erofs_pos(sbi, sbi->primarydevice_blocks)) {
+		erofs_err("invalid nid %llu (inode location %llu beyond image size %llu)",
+			  vi->nid | 0ULL, inode_loc | 0ULL,
+			  erofs_pos(sbi, sbi->primarydevice_blocks) | 0ULL);
+		return -EFSCORRUPTED;
+	}
+
+	blkaddr = erofs_blknr(sbi, inode_loc);
+	ofs = erofs_blkoff(sbi, inode_loc);
+
 	ptr = erofs_read_metabuf(&buf, sbi, erofs_pos(sbi, blkaddr), in_mbox);
 	if (IS_ERR(ptr)) {
 		err = PTR_ERR(ptr);
-- 
2.43.0



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