Vulnerability CVE-2023-52603
Published: 2024-03-06

Description:
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

UBSAN: array-index-out-of-bounds in dtSplitRoot

Syzkaller reported the following issue:

oop0: detected capacity change from 0 to 32768

UBSAN: array-index-out-of-bounds in fs/jfs/jfs_dtree.c:1971:9
index -2 is out of range for type 'struct dtslot [128]'
CPU: 0 PID: 3613 Comm: syz-executor270 Not tainted 6.0.0-syzkaller-09423-g493ffd6605b2 #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 09/22/2022
Call Trace:
<TASK>
__dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:88 [inline]
dump_stack_lvl+0x1b1/0x28e lib/dump_stack.c:106
ubsan_epilogue lib/ubsan.c:151 [inline]
__ubsan_handle_out_of_bounds+0xdb/0x130 lib/ubsan.c:283
dtSplitRoot+0x8d8/0x1900 fs/jfs/jfs_dtree.c:1971
dtSplitUp fs/jfs/jfs_dtree.c:985 [inline]
dtInsert+0x1189/0x6b80 fs/jfs/jfs_dtree.c:863
jfs_mkdir+0x757/0xb00 fs/jfs/namei.c:270
vfs_mkdir+0x3b3/0x590 fs/namei.c:4013
do_mkdirat+0x279/0x550 fs/namei.c:4038
__do_sys_mkdirat fs/namei.c:4053 [inline]
__se_sys_mkdirat fs/namei.c:4051 [inline]
__x64_sys_mkdirat+0x85/0x90 fs/namei.c:4051
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0x3d/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd
RIP: 0033:0x7fcdc0113fd9
Code: ff ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 40 00 48 89 f8 48 89 f7 48 89 d6 48 89 ca 4d 89 c2 4d 89 c8 4c 8b 4c 24 08 0f 05 <48> 3d 01 f0 ff ff 73 01 c3 48 c7 c1 c0 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48
RSP: 002b:00007ffeb8bc67d8 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000102
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 00007fcdc0113fd9
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000020000340 RDI: 0000000000000003
RBP: 00007fcdc00d37a0 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 00007fcdc00d37a0
R10: 00005555559a72c0 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 00000000f8008000
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 00083878000000f8 R15: 0000000000000000
</TASK>

The issue is caused when the value of fsi becomes less than -1.
The check to break the loop when fsi value becomes -1 is present
but syzbot was able to produce value less than -1 which cause the error.
This patch simply add the change for the values less than 0.

The patch is tested via syzbot.

 References:
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e30b52a2ea3d1e0aaee68096957cf90a2f4ec5af
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fd3486a893778770557649fe28afa5e463d4ed07
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7aa33854477d9c346f5560a1a1fcb3fe7783e2a8
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e4ce01c25ccbea02a09a5291c21749b1fc358e39
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e4cbc857d75d4e22a1f75446e7480b1f305d8d60
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/edff092a59260bf0b0a2eba219cb3da6372c2f9f
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6e2902ecc77e9760a9fc447f56d598383e2372d2
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/27e56f59bab5ddafbcfe69ad7a4a6ea1279c1b16
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