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authorSachin Prabhu <sprabhu@redhat.com>2012-04-17 14:35:39 +0100
committerTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>2012-04-27 13:15:07 -0400
commit5a00689930ab975fdd1b37b034475017e460cf2a (patch)
tree9cc6df10ac849488efe28ea811e55c213c22a754 /fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c
parent10bd295a0b6488ebe634b72a11d8986bd3af3819 (diff)
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Avoid reading past buffer when calling GETACL
Bug noticed in commit bf118a342f10dafe44b14451a1392c3254629a1f When calling GETACL, if the size of the bitmap array, the length attribute and the acl returned by the server is greater than the allocated buffer(args.acl_len), we can Oops with a General Protection fault at _copy_from_pages() when we attempt to read past the pages allocated. This patch allocates an extra PAGE for the bitmap and checks to see that the bitmap + attribute_length + ACLs don't exceed the buffer space allocated to it. Signed-off-by: Sachin Prabhu <sprabhu@redhat.com> Reported-by: Jian Li <jiali@redhat.com> [Trond: Fixed a size_t vs unsigned int printk() warning] Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c16
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c b/fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c
index 60d5f4c26dda..f5f125fdae1b 100644
--- a/fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c
+++ b/fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c
@@ -3684,19 +3684,23 @@ static ssize_t __nfs4_get_acl_uncached(struct inode *inode, void *buf, size_t bu
if (npages == 0)
npages = 1;
+ /* Add an extra page to handle the bitmap returned */
+ npages++;
+
for (i = 0; i < npages; i++) {
pages[i] = alloc_page(GFP_KERNEL);
if (!pages[i])
goto out_free;
}
- if (npages > 1) {
- /* for decoding across pages */
- res.acl_scratch = alloc_page(GFP_KERNEL);
- if (!res.acl_scratch)
- goto out_free;
- }
+
+ /* for decoding across pages */
+ res.acl_scratch = alloc_page(GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (!res.acl_scratch)
+ goto out_free;
+
args.acl_len = npages * PAGE_SIZE;
args.acl_pgbase = 0;
+
/* Let decode_getfacl know not to fail if the ACL data is larger than
* the page we send as a guess */
if (buf == NULL)