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Message-ID: <2025120404-CVE-2025-40243-8cca@gregkh>
Date: Thu,  4 Dec 2025 16:32:18 +0100
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>
Subject: CVE-2025-40243: hfs: fix KMSAN uninit-value issue in hfs_find_set_zero_bits()

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>

Description
===========

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

hfs: fix KMSAN uninit-value issue in hfs_find_set_zero_bits()

The syzbot reported issue in hfs_find_set_zero_bits():

=====================================================
BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in hfs_find_set_zero_bits+0x74d/0xb60 fs/hfs/bitmap.c:45
 hfs_find_set_zero_bits+0x74d/0xb60 fs/hfs/bitmap.c:45
 hfs_vbm_search_free+0x13c/0x5b0 fs/hfs/bitmap.c:151
 hfs_extend_file+0x6a5/0x1b00 fs/hfs/extent.c:408
 hfs_get_block+0x435/0x1150 fs/hfs/extent.c:353
 __block_write_begin_int+0xa76/0x3030 fs/buffer.c:2151
 block_write_begin fs/buffer.c:2262 [inline]
 cont_write_begin+0x10e1/0x1bc0 fs/buffer.c:2601
 hfs_write_begin+0x85/0x130 fs/hfs/inode.c:52
 cont_expand_zero fs/buffer.c:2528 [inline]
 cont_write_begin+0x35a/0x1bc0 fs/buffer.c:2591
 hfs_write_begin+0x85/0x130 fs/hfs/inode.c:52
 hfs_file_truncate+0x1d6/0xe60 fs/hfs/extent.c:494
 hfs_inode_setattr+0x964/0xaa0 fs/hfs/inode.c:654
 notify_change+0x1993/0x1aa0 fs/attr.c:552
 do_truncate+0x28f/0x310 fs/open.c:68
 do_ftruncate+0x698/0x730 fs/open.c:195
 do_sys_ftruncate fs/open.c:210 [inline]
 __do_sys_ftruncate fs/open.c:215 [inline]
 __se_sys_ftruncate fs/open.c:213 [inline]
 __x64_sys_ftruncate+0x11b/0x250 fs/open.c:213
 x64_sys_call+0xfe3/0x3db0 arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_64.h:78
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0xd9/0x210 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

Uninit was created at:
 slab_post_alloc_hook mm/slub.c:4154 [inline]
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4197 [inline]
 __kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x7f7/0xed0 mm/slub.c:4354
 kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:905 [inline]
 hfs_mdb_get+0x1cc8/0x2a90 fs/hfs/mdb.c:175
 hfs_fill_super+0x3d0/0xb80 fs/hfs/super.c:337
 get_tree_bdev_flags+0x6e3/0x920 fs/super.c:1681
 get_tree_bdev+0x38/0x50 fs/super.c:1704
 hfs_get_tree+0x35/0x40 fs/hfs/super.c:388
 vfs_get_tree+0xb0/0x5c0 fs/super.c:1804
 do_new_mount+0x738/0x1610 fs/namespace.c:3902
 path_mount+0x6db/0x1e90 fs/namespace.c:4226
 do_mount fs/namespace.c:4239 [inline]
 __do_sys_mount fs/namespace.c:4450 [inline]
 __se_sys_mount+0x6eb/0x7d0 fs/namespace.c:4427
 __x64_sys_mount+0xe4/0x150 fs/namespace.c:4427
 x64_sys_call+0xfa7/0x3db0 arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_64.h:166
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0xd9/0x210 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 12609 Comm: syz.1.2692 Not tainted 6.16.0-syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(none)
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 07/12/2025
=====================================================

The HFS_SB(sb)->bitmap buffer is allocated in hfs_mdb_get():

HFS_SB(sb)->bitmap = kmalloc(8192, GFP_KERNEL);

Finally, it can trigger the reported issue because kmalloc()
doesn't clear the allocated memory. If allocated memory contains
only zeros, then everything will work pretty fine.
But if the allocated memory contains the "garbage", then
it can affect the bitmap operations and it triggers
the reported issue.

This patch simply exchanges the kmalloc() on kzalloc()
with the goal to guarantee the correctness of bitmap operations.
Because, newly created allocation bitmap should have all
available blocks free. Potentially, initialization bitmap's read
operation could not fill the whole allocated memory and
"garbage" in the not initialized memory will be the reason of
volume coruptions and file system driver bugs.

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2025-40243 to this issue.


Affected and fixed versions
===========================

	Fixed in 5.4.301 with commit fc56548fca732f3d3692c83b40db796259a03887
	Fixed in 5.10.246 with commit bf1683078fbdd09a7f7f9b74121ebaa03432bd00
	Fixed in 5.15.196 with commit 2a112cdd66f5a132da5235ca31a320528c86bf33
	Fixed in 6.1.158 with commit e148ed5cda8fd96d4620c4622fb02f552a2d166a
	Fixed in 6.6.115 with commit cfafefcb0e1fc60135f7040f4aed0a4aef4f76ca
	Fixed in 6.12.56 with commit 3b447fd401824e1ccf0b769188edefe866a1e676
	Fixed in 6.17.6 with commit 502fa92a71f344611101bd04ef1a595b8b6014f5
	Fixed in 6.18 with commit 2048ec5b98dbdfe0b929d2e42dc7a54c389c53dd

Please see https://www.kernel.org for a full list of currently supported
kernel versions by the kernel community.

Unaffected versions might change over time as fixes are backported to
older supported kernel versions.  The official CVE entry at
	https://cve.org/CVERecord/?id=CVE-2025-40243
will be updated if fixes are backported, please check that for the most
up to date information about this issue.


Affected files
==============

The file(s) affected by this issue are:
	fs/hfs/mdb.c


Mitigation
==========

The Linux kernel CVE team recommends that you update to the latest
stable kernel version for this, and many other bugfixes.  Individual
changes are never tested alone, but rather are part of a larger kernel
release.  Cherry-picking individual commits is not recommended or
supported by the Linux kernel community at all.  If however, updating to
the latest release is impossible, the individual changes to resolve this
issue can be found at these commits:
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fc56548fca732f3d3692c83b40db796259a03887
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bf1683078fbdd09a7f7f9b74121ebaa03432bd00
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2a112cdd66f5a132da5235ca31a320528c86bf33
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e148ed5cda8fd96d4620c4622fb02f552a2d166a
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cfafefcb0e1fc60135f7040f4aed0a4aef4f76ca
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3b447fd401824e1ccf0b769188edefe866a1e676
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/502fa92a71f344611101bd04ef1a595b8b6014f5
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2048ec5b98dbdfe0b929d2e42dc7a54c389c53dd

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