[PATCH v2 2/4] fs: prevent integer overflow in zfs_nvlist_lookup

Simon Glass sjg at chromium.org
Thu Jan 8 20:59:06 CET 2026


Hi Timo,

On Wed, 31 Dec 2025 at 06:18, Timo tp Preißl <t.preissl at proton.me> wrote:
>
> An integer overflow in nvlist size calculation could lead
> to under-allocation and heap buffer overflow.
>
> Signed-off-by: Timo tp Preißl <t.preissl at proton.me>
> ---
>  fs/zfs/zfs.c | 5 ++++-
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/zfs/zfs.c b/fs/zfs/zfs.c
> index 410a61aa611..624f4e48cc8 100644
> --- a/fs/zfs/zfs.c
> +++ b/fs/zfs/zfs.c
> @@ -1627,7 +1627,10 @@ zfs_nvlist_lookup_nvlist(char *nvlist, char *name)
>          * nvlist to hold the encoding method, and two zero uint32's after the
>          * nvlist as the NULL terminator.
>          */
> -       ret = calloc(1, size + 3 * sizeof(uint32_t));
> +       if (__builtin_add_overflow(size, 3 * sizeof(uint32_t), &alloc))

I don't see 'alloc' here. Is there another patch?

> +               return 0;
> +
> +       ret = calloc(1, alloc);
>         if (!ret)
>                 return 0;
>         memcpy(ret, nvlist, sizeof(uint32_t));
> --
> 2.43.0
>
>

Regards,
Simon


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