Bug 2401508 (CVE-2022-50478) - CVE-2022-50478 kernel: nilfs2: fix shift-out-of-bounds/overflow in nilfs_sb2_bad_offset()
Summary: CVE-2022-50478 kernel: nilfs2: fix shift-out-of-bounds/overflow in nilfs_sb2_...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2022-50478
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2025-10-04 16:04 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-11-26 12:05 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-10-04 16:04:40 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

nilfs2: fix shift-out-of-bounds/overflow in nilfs_sb2_bad_offset()

Patch series "nilfs2: fix UBSAN shift-out-of-bounds warnings on mount
time".

The first patch fixes a bug reported by syzbot, and the second one fixes
the remaining bug of the same kind.  Although they are triggered by the
same super block data anomaly, I divided it into the above two because the
details of the issues and how to fix it are different.

Both are required to eliminate the shift-out-of-bounds issues at mount
time.


This patch (of 2):

If the block size exponent information written in an on-disk superblock is
corrupted, nilfs_sb2_bad_offset helper function can trigger
shift-out-of-bounds warning followed by a kernel panic (if panic_on_warn
is set):

 shift exponent 38983 is too large for 64-bit type 'unsigned long long'
 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_shift_out_of_bounds+0x33d/0x3b0 lib/ubsan.c:322
  nilfs_sb2_bad_offset fs/nilfs2/the_nilfs.c:449 [inline]
  nilfs_load_super_block+0xdf5/0xe00 fs/nilfs2/the_nilfs.c:523
  init_nilfs+0xb7/0x7d0 fs/nilfs2/the_nilfs.c:577
  nilfs_fill_super+0xb1/0x5d0 fs/nilfs2/super.c:1047
  nilfs_mount+0x613/0x9b0 fs/nilfs2/super.c:1317
  ...

In addition, since nilfs_sb2_bad_offset() performs multiplication without
considering the upper bound, the computation may overflow if the disk
layout parameters are not normal.

This fixes these issues by inserting preliminary sanity checks for those
parameters and by converting the comparison from one involving
multiplication and left bit-shifting to one using division and right
bit-shifting.


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