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xfs: fix out of bounds memory read error in symlink repair

Published Dec 4, 2025 · Updated May 11, 2026 · Assigned by Linux

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Description

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

xfs: fix out of bounds memory read error in symlink repair

xfs/286 produced this report on my test fleet:

==================================================================
BUG: KFENCE: out-of-bounds read in memcpy_orig+0x54/0x110

Out-of-bounds read at 0xffff88843fe9e038 (184B right of kfence-#184):
memcpy_orig+0x54/0x110
xrep_symlink_salvage_inline+0xb3/0xf0 [xfs]
xrep_symlink_salvage+0x100/0x110 [xfs]
xrep_symlink+0x2e/0x80 [xfs]
xrep_attempt+0x61/0x1f0 [xfs]
xfs_scrub_metadata+0x34f/0x5c0 [xfs]
xfs_ioc_scrubv_metadata+0x387/0x560 [xfs]
xfs_file_ioctl+0xe23/0x10e0 [xfs]
__x64_sys_ioctl+0x76/0xc0
do_syscall_64+0x4e/0x1e0
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x4b/0x53

kfence-#184: 0xffff88843fe9df80-0xffff88843fe9dfea, size=107, cache=kmalloc-128

allocated by task 3470 on cpu 1 at 263329.131592s (192823.508886s ago):
xfs_init_local_fork+0x79/0xe0 [xfs]
xfs_iformat_local+0xa4/0x170 [xfs]
xfs_iformat_data_fork+0x148/0x180 [xfs]
xfs_inode_from_disk+0x2cd/0x480 [xfs]
xfs_iget+0x450/0xd60 [xfs]
xfs_bulkstat_one_int+0x6b/0x510 [xfs]
xfs_bulkstat_iwalk+0x1e/0x30 [xfs]
xfs_iwalk_ag_recs+0xdf/0x150 [xfs]
xfs_iwalk_run_callbacks+0xb9/0x190 [xfs]
xfs_iwalk_ag+0x1dc/0x2f0 [xfs]
xfs_iwalk_args.constprop.0+0x6a/0x120 [xfs]
xfs_iwalk+0xa4/0xd0 [xfs]
xfs_bulkstat+0xfa/0x170 [xfs]
xfs_ioc_fsbulkstat.isra.0+0x13a/0x230 [xfs]
xfs_file_ioctl+0xbf2/0x10e0 [xfs]
__x64_sys_ioctl+0x76/0xc0
do_syscall_64+0x4e/0x1e0
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x4b/0x53

CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 1300113 Comm: xfs_scrub Not tainted 6.18.0-rc4-djwx #rc4 PREEMPT(lazy) 3d744dd94e92690f00a04398d2bd8631dcef1954
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.16.0-4.module+el8.8.0+21164+ed375313 04/01/2014
==================================================================

On further analysis, I realized that the second parameter to min() is
not correct. xfs_ifork::if_bytes is the size of the xfs_ifork::if_data
buffer. if_bytes can be smaller than the data fork size because:

(a) the forkoff code tries to keep the data area as large as possible
(b) for symbolic links, if_bytes is the ondisk file size + 1
(c) forkoff is always a multiple of 8.

Case in point: for a single-byte symlink target, forkoff will be
8 but the buffer will only be 2 bytes long.

In other words, the logic here is wrong and we walk off the end of the
incore buffer. Fix that.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Linux Linux 6.10 6.12.60

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 linux 6.17.10-1 —
Debian 13 linux 6.12.63-1 —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 25.10 linux 6.17.0-19.19 USN-8094-1
Ubuntu 25.10 linux-aws +2 6.17.0-1009.9 USN-8094-1
Ubuntu 25.10 linux-azure +1 6.17.0-1010.10 USN-8094-5, USN-8094-4
Ubuntu 25.10 linux-azure-fde No fix yet —
Ubuntu 25.10 linux-realtime 6.17.0-1008.9 USN-8094-2
Ubuntu 25.10 linux-riscv 6.17.0-19.19.1 —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-aws-6.17 6.17.0-1009.9~24.04.2 USN-8094-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-azure-6.17 6.17.0-1010.10~24.04.1 USN-8094-4
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-gcp-6.17 6.17.0-1009.9~24.04.3 USN-8094-2
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-hwe-6.17 6.17.0-19.19~24.04.2 USN-8094-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-nvidia-6.17 6.17.0-1018.18 —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-oem-6.17 6.17.0-1017.17 USN-8152-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-oracle-6.17 6.17.0-1009.9~24.04.1 USN-8094-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-riscv +18 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-riscv-6.17 6.17.0-19.19.1~24.04.1 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-riscv +32 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-gke +28 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS linux-gcp +14 No fix yet —
Show 2 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS linux-hwe-edge No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro Realtime 24.04 LTS linux-realtime-6.14 No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro Realtime 24.04 LTS linux-realtime-6.17 6.17.0-1008.9~24.04.1 USN-8094-3
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
SLES for SAP 16.0 kernel-64kb +8 6.12.0-160000.9.1 SUSE-SU-2026:20220-1
SLES for SAP 16.0 kernel-default-base 6.12.0-160000.9.1.160000.2.6 SUSE-SU-2026:20220-1
SLES 16.0 kernel-64kb +8 6.12.0-160000.9.1 SUSE-SU-2026:20228-1, SUSE-SU-2026:20220-1
SLES 16.0 kernel-default-base 6.12.0-160000.9.1.160000.2.6 SUSE-SU-2026:20220-1
SLE Micro 6.2 kernel-default-base 6.12.0-160000.9.1.160000.2.6 SUSE-SU-2026:20207-1
SLE Micro 6.2 kernel-rt +5 6.12.0-160000.9.1 SUSE-SU-2026:20564-1, SUSE-SU-2026:20207-1
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Leap 16.0 kernel-default-base 6.12.0-160000.9.1.160000.2.6 openSUSE-SU-2026:20145-1
openSUSE Leap 16.0 kernel-rt +11 6.12.0-160000.9.1 openSUSE-SU-2026:20145-1

Oracle Linux

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Oracle Linux 9 kernel-uek +34 6.12.0-108.64.6.3.el10uek ELSA-2026-50112

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