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<updated>2026-09-14T11:40:45+00:00</updated>
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<title>Squashfs: check block offset is not negative</title>
<updated>2026-09-14T11:40:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Phillip Lougher</name>
<email>phillip@squashfs.org.uk</email>
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<published>2026-08-07T16:29:51+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit e300eb5002925b29be803d2661af07266cfa267e ]

If a negative offset is read off disk (for example the offset into the
decompressed fragment block), this will cause squashfs_copy_data() to
perform an out of bounds access.

Fix by checking if offset is negative, and returning 0.  This matches
existing behaviour where an offset beyond the block returns 0 bytes
copied.

To trigger this out of bounds access requires a crafted Squashfs
filesystem and CAP_SYS_ADMIN to mount it.  Unprivileged users will not be
able to mount such a filesystem, but once mounted, an unprivileged user
can trigger the out of bounds access by reading the crafted file with the
negative offset.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260807162951.672510-1-phillip@squashfs.org.uk
Fixes: f400e12656ab ("Squashfs: cache operations")
Signed-off-by: Phillip Lougher &lt;phillip@squashfs.org.uk&gt;
Reported-by: Yuejie Shi &lt;syjcnss@gmail.com&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260803032735.81785-1-syjcnss@gmail.com/
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Squashfs: check metadata block offset is within range</title>
<updated>2026-02-24T19:13:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Phillip Lougher</name>
<email>phillip@squashfs.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-17T05:09:55+00:00</published>
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Syzkaller reports a "general protection fault in squashfs_copy_data"

This is ultimately caused by a corrupted index look-up table, which
produces a negative metadata block offset.

This is subsequently passed to squashfs_copy_data (via
squashfs_read_metadata) where the negative offset causes an out of bounds
access.

The fix is to check that the offset is within range in
squashfs_read_metadata.  This will trap this and other cases.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260217050955.138351-1-phillip@squashfs.org.uk
Fixes: f400e12656ab ("Squashfs: cache operations")
Reported-by: syzbot+a9747fe1c35a5b115d3f@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/699234e2.a70a0220.2c38d7.00e2.GAE@google.com/
Signed-off-by: Phillip Lougher &lt;phillip@squashfs.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Convert remaining multi-line kmalloc_obj/flex GFP_KERNEL uses</title>
<updated>2026-02-22T16:26:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kees Cook</name>
<email>kees@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-22T07:46:04+00:00</published>
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Conversion performed via this Coccinelle script:

  // SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
  // Options: --include-headers-for-types --all-includes --include-headers --keep-comments
  virtual patch

  @gfp depends on patch &amp;&amp; !(file in "tools") &amp;&amp; !(file in "samples")@
  identifier ALLOC = {kmalloc_obj,kmalloc_objs,kmalloc_flex,
 		    kzalloc_obj,kzalloc_objs,kzalloc_flex,
		    kvmalloc_obj,kvmalloc_objs,kvmalloc_flex,
		    kvzalloc_obj,kvzalloc_objs,kvzalloc_flex};
  @@

  	ALLOC(...
  -		, GFP_KERNEL
  	)

  $ make coccicheck MODE=patch COCCI=gfp.cocci

Build and boot tested x86_64 with Fedora 42's GCC and Clang:

Linux version 6.19.0+ (user@host) (gcc (GCC) 15.2.1 20260123 (Red Hat 15.2.1-7), GNU ld version 2.44-12.fc42) #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC 1970-01-01
Linux version 6.19.0+ (user@host) (clang version 20.1.8 (Fedora 20.1.8-4.fc42), LLD 20.1.8) #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC 1970-01-01

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Convert 'alloc_obj' family to use the new default GFP_KERNEL argument</title>
<updated>2026-02-22T01:09:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-22T00:37:42+00:00</published>
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This was done entirely with mindless brute force, using

    git grep -l '\&lt;k[vmz]*alloc_objs*(.*, GFP_KERNEL)' |
        xargs sed -i 's/\(alloc_objs*(.*\), GFP_KERNEL)/\1)/'

to convert the new alloc_obj() users that had a simple GFP_KERNEL
argument to just drop that argument.

Note that due to the extreme simplicity of the scripting, any slightly
more complex cases spread over multiple lines would not be triggered:
they definitely exist, but this covers the vast bulk of the cases, and
the resulting diff is also then easier to check automatically.

For the same reason the 'flex' versions will be done as a separate
conversion.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<title>treewide: Replace kmalloc with kmalloc_obj for non-scalar types</title>
<updated>2026-02-21T09:02:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kees Cook</name>
<email>kees@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-21T07:49:23+00:00</published>
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This is the result of running the Coccinelle script from
scripts/coccinelle/api/kmalloc_objs.cocci. The script is designed to
avoid scalar types (which need careful case-by-case checking), and
instead replace kmalloc-family calls that allocate struct or union
object instances:

Single allocations:	kmalloc(sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_obj(TYPE, ...)

Array allocations:	kmalloc_array(COUNT, sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_objs(TYPE, COUNT, ...)

Flex array allocations:	kmalloc(struct_size(PTR, FAM, COUNT), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_flex(*PTR, FAM, COUNT, ...)

(where TYPE may also be *VAR)

The resulting allocations no longer return "void *", instead returning
"TYPE *".

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>squashfs: add setlease file operation</title>
<updated>2026-01-12T09:55:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jeff Layton</name>
<email>jlayton@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-01-08T17:13:13+00:00</published>
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Add the setlease file_operation pointing to generic_setlease to the
squashfs file_operations structures. A future patch will change the
default behavior to reject lease attempts with -EINVAL when there is no
setlease file operation defined. Add generic_setlease to retain the
ability to set leases on this filesystem.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260108-setlease-6-20-v1-18-ea4dec9b67fa@kernel.org
Acked-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Coccinelle-based conversion to use -&gt;i_state accessors</title>
<updated>2025-10-20T18:22:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mateusz Guzik</name>
<email>mjguzik@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-10-09T07:59:18+00:00</published>
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All places were patched by coccinelle with the default expecting that
-&gt;i_lock is held, afterwards entries got fixed up by hand to use
unlocked variants as needed.

The script:
@@
expression inode, flags;
@@

- inode-&gt;i_state &amp; flags
+ inode_state_read(inode) &amp; flags

@@
expression inode, flags;
@@

- inode-&gt;i_state &amp;= ~flags
+ inode_state_clear(inode, flags)

@@
expression inode, flag1, flag2;
@@

- inode-&gt;i_state &amp;= ~flag1 &amp; ~flag2
+ inode_state_clear(inode, flag1 | flag2)

@@
expression inode, flags;
@@

- inode-&gt;i_state |= flags
+ inode_state_set(inode, flags)

@@
expression inode, flags;
@@

- inode-&gt;i_state = flags
+ inode_state_assign(inode, flags)

@@
expression inode, flags;
@@

- flags = inode-&gt;i_state
+ flags = inode_state_read(inode)

@@
expression inode, flags;
@@

- READ_ONCE(inode-&gt;i_state) &amp; flags
+ inode_state_read(inode) &amp; flags

Signed-off-by: Mateusz Guzik &lt;mjguzik@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2025-10-02-15-29' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm</title>
<updated>2025-10-03T01:44:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-10-03T01:44:54+00:00</published>
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Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton:

 - "ida: Remove the ida_simple_xxx() API" from Christophe Jaillet
   completes the removal of this legacy IDR API

 - "panic: introduce panic status function family" from Jinchao Wang
   provides a number of cleanups to the panic code and its various
   helpers, which were rather ad-hoc and scattered all over the place

 - "tools/delaytop: implement real-time keyboard interaction support"
   from Fan Yu adds a few nice user-facing usability changes to the
   delaytop monitoring tool

 - "efi: Fix EFI boot with kexec handover (KHO)" from Evangelos
   Petrongonas fixes a panic which was happening with the combination of
   EFI and KHO

 - "Squashfs: performance improvement and a sanity check" from Phillip
   Lougher teaches squashfs's lseek() about SEEK_DATA/SEEK_HOLE. A mere
   150x speedup was measured for a well-chosen microbenchmark

 - plus another 50-odd singleton patches all over the place

* tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2025-10-02-15-29' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (75 commits)
  Squashfs: reject negative file sizes in squashfs_read_inode()
  kallsyms: use kmalloc_array() instead of kmalloc()
  MAINTAINERS: update Sibi Sankar's email address
  Squashfs: add SEEK_DATA/SEEK_HOLE support
  Squashfs: add additional inode sanity checking
  lib/genalloc: fix device leak in of_gen_pool_get()
  panic: remove CONFIG_PANIC_ON_OOPS_VALUE
  ocfs2: fix double free in user_cluster_connect()
  checkpatch: suppress strscpy warnings for userspace tools
  cramfs: fix incorrect physical page address calculation
  kernel: prevent prctl(PR_SET_PDEATHSIG) from racing with parent process exit
  Squashfs: fix uninit-value in squashfs_get_parent
  kho: only fill kimage if KHO is finalized
  ocfs2: avoid extra calls to strlen() after ocfs2_sprintf_system_inode_name()
  kernel/sys.c: fix the racy usage of task_lock(tsk-&gt;group_leader) in sys_prlimit64() paths
  sched/task.h: fix the wrong comment on task_lock() nesting with tasklist_lock
  coccinelle: platform_no_drv_owner: handle also built-in drivers
  coccinelle: of_table: handle SPI device ID tables
  lib/decompress: use designated initializers for struct compress_format
  efi: support booting with kexec handover (KHO)
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Squashfs: reject negative file sizes in squashfs_read_inode()</title>
<updated>2025-09-28T18:36:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Phillip Lougher</name>
<email>phillip@squashfs.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2025-09-26T21:59:35+00:00</published>
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Syskaller reports a "WARNING in ovl_copy_up_file" in overlayfs.

This warning is ultimately caused because the underlying Squashfs file
system returns a file with a negative file size.

This commit checks for a negative file size and returns EINVAL.

[phillip@squashfs.org.uk: only need to check 64 bit quantity]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250926222305.110103-1-phillip@squashfs.org.uk
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250926215935.107233-1-phillip@squashfs.org.uk
Fixes: 6545b246a2c8 ("Squashfs: inode operations")
Signed-off-by: Phillip Lougher &lt;phillip@squashfs.org.uk&gt;
Reported-by: syzbot+f754e01116421e9754b9@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/68d580e5.a00a0220.303701.0019.GAE@google.com/
Cc: Amir Goldstein &lt;amir73il@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Squashfs: add SEEK_DATA/SEEK_HOLE support</title>
<updated>2025-09-28T18:36:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Phillip Lougher</name>
<email>phillip@squashfs.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2025-09-23T22:06:52+00:00</published>
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Add support for SEEK_DATA and SEEK_HOLE lseek() whence values.

These allow much faster searches for holes and data in sparse files, which
can significantly speed up file copying, e.g.

before (GNU coreutils, Debian 13):

cp --sparse=always big-file /

took real 11m58s, user 0m5.764s, sys 11m48s

after:

real 0.047s, user 0.000s, sys 0.027s

Where big-file has a 256 GB hole followed by 47 KB of data.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250923220652.568416-3-phillip@squashfs.org.uk
Signed-off-by: Phillip Lougher &lt;phillip@squashfs.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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