CVE-2025-71123

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

ext4: fix string copying in parse_apply_sb_mount_options()

strscpy_pad() cant be used to copy a non-NUL-term string into a NUL-term string of possibly bigger size. Commit 0efc5990bca5 (string.h: Introduce memtostr() and memtostr_pad()) provides additional information in that regard. So if this happens, the following warning is observed:

strnlen: detected buffer overflow: 65 byte read of buffer size 64 WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 28655 at lib/string_helpers.c:1032 __fortify_report+0x96/0xc0 lib/string_helpers.c:1032 Modules linked in: CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 28655 Comm: syz-executor.3 Not tainted 6.12.54-syzkaller-00144-g5f0270f1ba00 #0 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2 04/01/2014 RIP: 0010:__fortify_report+0x96/0xc0 lib/string_helpers.c:1032 Call Trace: __fortify_panic+0x1f/0x30 lib/string_helpers.c:1039 strnlen include/linux/fortify-string.h:235 [inline] sized_strscpy include/linux/fortify-string.h:309 [inline] parse_apply_sb_mount_options fs/ext4/super.c:2504 [inline] __ext4_fill_super fs/ext4/super.c:5261 [inline] ext4_fill_super+0x3c35/0xad00 fs/ext4/super.c:5706 get_tree_bdev_flags+0x387/0x620 fs/super.c:1636 vfs_get_tree+0x93/0x380 fs/super.c:1814 do_new_mount fs/namespace.c:3553 [inline] path_mount+0x6ae/0x1f70 fs/namespace.c:3880 do_mount fs/namespace.c:3893 [inline] __do_sys_mount fs/namespace.c:4103 [inline] __se_sys_mount fs/namespace.c:4080 [inline] __x64_sys_mount+0x280/0x300 fs/namespace.c:4080 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 [inline] do_syscall_64+0x64/0x140 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e

Since userspace is expected to provide s_mount_opts field to be at most 63 characters long with the ending byte being NUL-term, use a 64-byte buffer which matches the size of s_mount_opts, so that strscpy_pad() does its job properly. Return with error if the user still managed to provide a non-NUL-term string here.

Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with Syzkaller.

Affected Software

References

• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/52ac96c4a2dd7bc47666000440b0602d9742e820
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5bbacbbf1ca4419861dca3c6b82707c10e9c021c
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6e37143560e37869d51b7d9e0ac61fc48895f8a0
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/902ca2356f1e3ec5355c5808ad5d3f9d0095b0cc
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/db9ee13fab0267eccf6544ee35b16c9522db9aac
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ee5a977b4e771cc181f39d504426dbd31ed701cc