CVE-2025-71123

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

ext4: fix string copying in parseapplysbmountoptions()

strscpypad() can't 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 memtostrpad()") 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 __fortifyreport+0x96/0xc0 lib/stringhelpers.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:__fortifyreport+0x96/0xc0 lib/stringhelpers.c:1032 Call Trace: <TASK> __fortifypanic+0x1f/0x30 lib/stringhelpers.c:1039 strnlen include/linux/fortify-string.h:235 [inline] sizedstrscpy include/linux/fortify-string.h:309 [inline] parseapplysbmount_options fs/ext4/super.c:2504 [inline] __ext4fillsuper fs/ext4/super.c:5261 [inline] ext4fillsuper+0x3c35/0xad00 fs/ext4/super.c:5706 gettreebdevflags+0x387/0x620 fs/super.c:1636 vfsgettree+0x93/0x380 fs/super.c:1814 donewmount fs/namespace.c:3553 [inline] pathmount+0x6ae/0x1f70 fs/namespace.c:3880 do_mount fs/namespace.c:3893 [inline] __dosysmount fs/namespace.c:4103 [inline] __sesysmount fs/namespace.c:4080 [inline] __x64sysmount+0x280/0x300 fs/namespace.c:4080 dosyscallx64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 [inline] dosyscall64+0x64/0x140 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83 entrySYSCALL64afterhwframe+0x76/0x7e

Since userspace is expected to provide smountopts 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 smountopts, 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.