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CVE-2021-46989

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CVE-2021-46989

Published: Feb 28, 2024

Modified: May 11, 2026

PUBLISHED

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: hfsplus: prevent corruption in shrinking truncate I believe there are some issues introduced by commit 31651c607151 ("hfsplus: avoid deadlock on file truncation") HFS+ has extent records which always contains 8 extents. In case the first extent record in catalog file gets full, new ones are allocated from extents overflow file. In case shrinking truncate happens to middle of an extent record which locates in extents overflow file, the logic in hfsplus_file_truncate() was changed so that call to hfs_brec_remove() is not guarded any more. Right action would be just freeing the extents that exceed the new size inside extent record by calling hfsplus_free_extents(), and then check if the whole extent record should be removed. However since the guard (blk_cnt > start) is now after the call to hfs_brec_remove(), this has unfortunate effect that the last matching extent record is removed unconditionally. To reproduce this issue, create a file which has at least 10 extents, and then perform shrinking truncate into middle of the last extent record, so that the number of remaining extents is not under or divisible by 8. This causes the last extent record (8 extents) to be removed totally instead of truncating into middle of it. Thus this causes corruption, and lost data. Fix for this is simply checking if the new truncated end is below the start of this extent record, making it safe to remove the full extent record. However call to hfs_brec_remove() can't be moved to it's previous place since we're dropping ->tree_lock and it can cause a race condition and the cached info being invalidated possibly corrupting the node data. Another issue is related to this one. When entering into the block (blk_cnt > start) we are not holding the ->tree_lock. We break out from the loop not holding the lock, but hfs_find_exit() does unlock it. Not sure if it's possible for someone else to take the lock under our feet, but it can cause hard to debug errors and premature unlocking. Even if there's no real risk of it, the locking should still always be kept in balance. Thus taking the lock now just before the check.

VendorProductVersions

Linux

Linux

affected
31651c607151f1034cfb57e5a78678bea54c362b - < 52dde855663e5db824af51db39b5757d2ef3e28a
affected
31651c607151f1034cfb57e5a78678bea54c362b - < c451a6bafb5f422197d31536f82116aed132b72c
affected
31651c607151f1034cfb57e5a78678bea54c362b - < adbd8a2a8cc05d9e501f93e5c95c59307874cc99
affected
31651c607151f1034cfb57e5a78678bea54c362b - < c477f62db1a0c0ecaa60a29713006ceeeb04b685
affected
31651c607151f1034cfb57e5a78678bea54c362b - < 97314e45aa1223a42d60256a62c5d9af54baf446

+1 more versions

Linux

Linux

affected
4.19
unaffected
0 - < 4.19
unaffected
4.19.191 - <= 4.19.*
unaffected
5.4.120 - <= 5.4.*
unaffected
5.10.38 - <= 5.10.*

+3 more versions

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