Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Tue, 31 Jul 2007 09:59:16 -0400 | From | Steve Dickson <> | Subject | Re: rpc.mountd crashes when extensively using netgroups |
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Stefan Walter wrote: > > We do this on a much larger scale though. The bug we ran into is > in line 96 in utils/mountd/auth.c. The strcpy can corrupt > memory when it copies the string returned by client_compose() to > my_client.m_hostname which has a fixed size of 1024 bytes. > For our example above, client_compose() returns "@joe,@jane" > for any machine in the offices_1 netgroup. Unfortunately we have > a machine to which roughly 150 netgroups like @joe or @jane > export to and client_compose() returns a string over 1300 bytes > long and rpc.mountd nicely segfaults. > > To prevent the crash is of course trivial: Inserting a simple > 'if (strlen(n) > 1024) return NULL;' before line 96 does the job. Does the attached patch help?
> > There are however two issues for which we could not find an easy > solution: > > 1. For every client rpc.mountd and the kernel seem to exchange > and use lists with _all_ netgroups used in exports that are > relevant for granting permission to some share for a particular > client. We could imagine two optimizations here: > > * Resolve netgroups and only put the (member) netgroups that > contained the host name that would be used to authorize > a mount in the list. > > * Use the list of mounted paths per client and only put the > netgroup(s) used to export paths that are actually mounted > on a client. These sound reasonable...
> > 2. Using a fixed size for NFSCLNT_IDMAX does not scale. Mounting > shares on a client for which the 'if' clause of the quick fix > becomes true will not be possible. We thought about enlarging > NFSCLNT_IDMAX and using a custom kernel but dropped the idea. True...
> > Our ultimate goal is to get Red Hat fix the code in nfs-utils 1.0.6 > that is used in RHEL4. A first step would be to get a suitable fix in > the current nfs-utils. Please open up bugs on all three of these issues and we'll see what can done...
steved.
commit 851ce1cb766cf295db85900aab804c0f82c12ab3 Author: Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com> Date: Tue Jul 31 09:57:19 2007 -0400
Stop rpc.mound from crashing by m_hostname becoming corrupted with very long host names.
Signed-off-by: Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com>
diff --git a/utils/mountd/auth.c b/utils/mountd/auth.c index f7fe23d..eff0ba7 100644 --- a/utils/mountd/auth.c +++ b/utils/mountd/auth.c @@ -93,7 +93,8 @@ auth_authenticate_internal(char *what, struct sockaddr_in *caller, *error = unknown_host; if (!n) return NULL; - strcpy(my_client.m_hostname, *n?n:"DEFAULT"); + snprintf(my_client.m_hostname, (NFSCLNT_IDMAX+1), + "%s", *n?n:"DEFAULT"); free(n); my_client.m_naddr = 1; my_exp.m_client = &my_client; | |