Bug 2492294 (CVE-2026-53040)

Summary:	CVE-2026-53040 kernel: ocfs2: validate bg_bits during freefrag scan
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	OSIDB Bzimport <bzimport>
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Doc Text:	A flaw was found in the Oracle Cluster File System Release 2 (OCFS2) in the Linux kernel. A local attacker with the ability to craft a malicious OCFS2 filesystem could trigger a use-after-free vulnerability. This occurs when the OCFS2_IOC_INFO ioctl is issued with the OCFS2_INFO_FL_NON_COHERENT flag, leading to an out-of-bounds bitmap walk. This flaw could result in a denial of service, causing system instability or crashes.	Story Points:	---
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-06-24 18:04:01 UTC

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

ocfs2: validate bg_bits during freefrag scan

[BUG]
A crafted filesystem can trigger an out-of-bounds bitmap walk when
OCFS2_IOC_INFO is issued with OCFS2_INFO_FL_NON_COHERENT.

BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in instrument_atomic_read include/linux/instrumented.h:68 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in _test_bit include/asm-generic/bitops/instrumented-non-atomic.h:141 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in test_bit_le include/asm-generic/bitops/le.h:21 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in ocfs2_info_freefrag_scan_chain fs/ocfs2/ioctl.c:495 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in ocfs2_info_freefrag_scan_bitmap fs/ocfs2/ioctl.c:588 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in ocfs2_info_handle_freefrag fs/ocfs2/ioctl.c:662 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in ocfs2_info_handle_request+0x1c66/0x3370 fs/ocfs2/ioctl.c:754
Read of size 8 at addr ffff888031bce000 by task syz.0.636/1435
Call Trace:
 __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:94 [inline]
 dump_stack_lvl+0xbe/0x130 lib/dump_stack.c:120
 print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:378 [inline]
 print_report+0xd1/0x650 mm/kasan/report.c:482
 kasan_report+0xfb/0x140 mm/kasan/report.c:595
 check_region_inline mm/kasan/generic.c:186 [inline]
 kasan_check_range+0x11c/0x200 mm/kasan/generic.c:200
 __kasan_check_read+0x11/0x20 mm/kasan/shadow.c:31
 instrument_atomic_read include/linux/instrumented.h:68 [inline]
 _test_bit include/asm-generic/bitops/instrumented-non-atomic.h:141 [inline]
 test_bit_le include/asm-generic/bitops/le.h:21 [inline]
 ocfs2_info_freefrag_scan_chain fs/ocfs2/ioctl.c:495 [inline]
 ocfs2_info_freefrag_scan_bitmap fs/ocfs2/ioctl.c:588 [inline]
 ocfs2_info_handle_freefrag fs/ocfs2/ioctl.c:662 [inline]
 ocfs2_info_handle_request+0x1c66/0x3370 fs/ocfs2/ioctl.c:754
 ocfs2_info_handle+0x18d/0x2a0 fs/ocfs2/ioctl.c:828
 ocfs2_ioctl+0x632/0x6e0 fs/ocfs2/ioctl.c:913
 vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]
 __do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:597 [inline]
 __se_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:583 [inline]
 __x64_sys_ioctl+0x197/0x1e0 fs/ioctl.c:583
 ...

[CAUSE]
ocfs2_info_freefrag_scan_chain() uses on-disk bg_bits directly as the
bitmap scan limit. The coherent path reads group descriptors through
ocfs2_read_group_descriptor(), which validates the descriptor before
use. The non-coherent path uses ocfs2_read_blocks_sync() instead and
skips that validation, so an impossible bg_bits value can drive the
bitmap walk past the end of the block.

[FIX]
Compute the bitmap capacity from the filesystem format with
ocfs2_group_bitmap_size(), report descriptors whose bg_bits exceeds
that limit, and clamp the scan to the computed capacity. This keeps the
freefrag report going while avoiding reads beyond the buffer.

Comment 1 Keith Grant 2026-06-26 17:21:26 UTC

Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2026062456-CVE-2026-53040-e3ea@gregkh/T