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The FAT specification[1] (FAT Directory Structure -> "DIR_Name[0]") states:
If DIR_Name[0] == 0x00, then the directory entry is free (same as for
0xE5), and there are no allocated directory entries after this one
(all of the DIR_Name[0] bytes in all of the entries after this one
are also set to 0).
The special 0 value, rather than the 0xE5 value, indicates to FAT
file system driver code that the rest of the entries in this
directory do not need to be examined because they are all free.
Linux did not honour this. fat_get_entry() kept advancing past the 0x00
terminator; if the trailing on-disk slots were not zero-filled (buggy
formatters, read-only media written by other operating systems, on-disk
corruption) the driver surfaced arbitrary bytes as real directory
entries. On a typical affected image, `ls /mnt` returns ~150 bogus
entries with random binary names, multi-gigabyte sizes, dates ranging
from 1980 to 2106, and a flood of -EIO from stat().
Earlier attempts (v1..v3, see [2][3][4]) added `de->name[0] == 0` guards
at each call site. As Hirofumi pointed out on v3, those guards reject
the entry but fat_get_entry() has already advanced *pos past it; the
next readdir() resumes after the marker and walks straight back into
the garbage. His suggestion was to centralise the check.
This patch:
* Adds fat_get_entry_eod(), a small wrapper around fat_get_entry()
that returns -1 when name[0] == 0 and seeks *pos to dir->i_size.
Per spec every slot after the 0x00 marker is also zero, so jumping
to the end of the directory is correct: subsequent reads return -1
from fat_bmap() without re-fetching trailing zero slots, and
callers persisting *pos across invocations (notably readdir's
ctx->pos) keep reporting end-of-directory on re-entry.
* Converts the read/search paths to use the new wrapper:
fat_parse_long(), fat_search_long(), __fat_readdir(),
and fat_get_short_entry() -- the last covers
fat_get_dotdot_entry(), fat_dir_empty(), fat_subdirs(),
fat_scan(), and fat_scan_logstart() transitively.
* Leaves fat_add_entries() and __fat_remove_entries() on raw
fat_get_entry(): the write paths legitimately need to operate on
free/zero slots. fat_add_entries() additionally detects an
allocated entry past a 0x00 marker (the spec violation that
produces the garbage) and treats it as filesystem corruption:
fat_fs_error_ratelimit() is called -- which honours the configured
errors= mount option (panic / remount-ro / continue) -- and the
operation returns -EIO so we don't write fresh entries into an
already-corrupt directory.
[1] https://download.microsoft.com/download/1/6/1/161ba512-40e2-4cc9-843a-923143f3456c/fatgen103.doc
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20181207013410.7050-1-mcroce@redhat.com/
[3] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20181216231510.26854-1-mcroce@redhat.com/
[4] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190201001408.7453-1-mcroce@redhat.com/
Reported-by: Timothy Redaelli <tredaelli@redhat.com>
Suggested-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Matteo Croce <teknoraver@meta.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260616163346.32603-1-technoboy85@gmail.com
Acked-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) <brauner@kernel.org>
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