CVE-2026-80656 PUBLISHED

hfsplus: Add a sanity check for btree node size

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 26.08.2026 Published: 28.08.2026 Updated: 28.08.2026

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

hfsplus: Add a sanity check for btree node size

Syzbot reported an uninit-value bug in [1] with a corrupted HFS+ image, during the file system mounting process, specifically while loading the catalog, a corrupted node_size value of 1 caused the rec_off argument passed to hfs_bnode_read_u16() (within hfs_bnode_find()) to be excessively large. Consequently, the function failed to return a valid value to initialize the off variable, triggering the bug [1].

Every node starts from BTree node descriptor: struct hfs_bnode_desc. So, the size of node cannot be lesser than that. However, technical specification declares that: "The node size (which is expressed in bytes) must be power of two, from 512 through 32,768, inclusive." Add a check for btree node size base on technical specification.

[1] BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in hfsplus_bnode_find+0x141c/0x1600 fs/hfsplus/bnode.c:584 hfsplus_bnode_find+0x141c/0x1600 fs/hfsplus/bnode.c:584 hfsplus_btree_open+0x169a/0x1e40 fs/hfsplus/btree.c:382 hfsplus_fill_super+0x111f/0x2770 fs/hfsplus/super.c:553 get_tree_bdev_flags+0x6e6/0x920 fs/super.c:1694 get_tree_bdev+0x38/0x50 fs/super.c:1717 hfsplus_get_tree+0x35/0x40 fs/hfsplus/super.c:709 vfs_get_tree+0xb3/0x5d0 fs/super.c:1754 fc_mount fs/namespace.c:1193 [inline]

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 8ad2c6a36ac4328072377906a47ea0bff11e4032 to 306265eb9384d2c224f1b14d83a29323f0eab6d1 (excl.)
  • affected from 8ad2c6a36ac4328072377906a47ea0bff11e4032 to 3f95e2661574ff13f099dd13456751933c280628 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 7.1 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 7.1 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 7.1.5 to 7.1.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.2 to * (incl.)

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