CVE-2026-89490

ocfs2: fix readdir position truncation on 32-bit kernels

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Sep 11, 2026
Updated
Oct 19, 2026
Reserved
Sep 11, 2026

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Description

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

ocfs2: fix readdir position truncation on 32-bit kernels

In ocfs2_dir_foreach_blk_el(), the directory cookie position is rebuilt with

ctx->pos = (ctx->pos & ~(sb->s_blocksize - 1)) | offset;

`ctx->pos` is loff_t (signed 64-bit), while `sb->s_blocksize` is unsigned long. On 32-bit kernels unsigned long is 32-bit, so the mask

~(sb->s_blocksize - 1)

is computed as a 32-bit unsigned value (e.g. 0xfffff000 for a 4 KiB block size). In the AND expression with the 64-bit `ctx->pos`, that unsigned operand is zero-extended to 64 bits per the usual arithmetic conversions, yielding 0x00000000fffff000. The high 32 bits of `ctx->pos` are silently cleared, even though directory size is allowed to exceed 4 GiB.

When readdir() crosses the 4 GiB boundary on a 32-bit kernel the position is reset back into the first 4 GiB block, making the re-validation path re-enumerate already-returned dirents indefinitely.

This is ocfs2_dir_foreach_blk_el(), the extent-list readdir path taken for all non-inline directories, so a directory large enough to cross 4 GiB reaches it.

This is the same class of bug that commit 3dce5bb82c97 ("exfat: Fix bitwise operation having different size") fixed in exfat, and the fix mirrors the equivalent ext4 fix in this series. Cast the operand to loff_t so the mask is 64-bit before the AND:

ctx->pos = (ctx->pos & ~((loff_t)sb->s_blocksize - 1)) | offset;

64-bit kernels are unaffected.

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Weaknesses

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Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • ccd979bdbce9fba8412beb3f1de68a9d0171b12c to before c28dc3407937aa8f225942538cd585c9b28ea65aAffected
  • ccd979bdbce9fba8412beb3f1de68a9d0171b12c to before 94569154ba49f5f85645d2019c8e206213d8404eAffected
  • ccd979bdbce9fba8412beb3f1de68a9d0171b12c to before 1ae7029823ae4c91664cb32eec7fb8dd5e1a337aAffected
  • ccd979bdbce9fba8412beb3f1de68a9d0171b12c to before f9dd5cad8d09110ddff2db1fe756aae93c7552ffAffected
  • ccd979bdbce9fba8412beb3f1de68a9d0171b12c to before 1001fb3b69a11eaa0dc7c7428f6edfa48b88997aAffected
  • ccd979bdbce9fba8412beb3f1de68a9d0171b12c to before c0c165487a2ea5a37ddcdab4259157b7a527129cAffected
  • ccd979bdbce9fba8412beb3f1de68a9d0171b12c to before b53e2b271eeb6040c2a4a78230c570dc41cdcfa4Affected
  • ccd979bdbce9fba8412beb3f1de68a9d0171b12c to before a63308ab426f3a3c7e33b02c150ea59054620261Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 2.6.16Affected
  • before 2.6.16Not affected
  • 5.10.270 through 5.10.*Not affected
  • 5.15.221 through 5.15.*Not affected
  • 6.1.188 through 6.1.*Not affected
  • 6.6.157 through 6.6.*Not affected
  • 6.12.109 through 6.12.*Not affected
  • 6.18.50 through 6.18.*Not affected
  • 7.2.4 through 7.2.*Not affected
  • 7.3 and laterNot affected

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