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SubjectRe: [PATCH] eCryptfs: Check array bounds for filename characters
On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 3:32 PM, Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@google.com> wrote:
> Characters with ASCII values greater than the size of
> filename_rev_map[] are valid filename
> characters. ecryptfs_decode_from_filename() will access kernel memory
> beyond that array, and ecryptfs_parse_tag_70_packet() will then
> decrypt those characters.

Ugh. I really don't like the patch.

Why isn't the patch just this one-liner:

diff --git a/fs/ecryptfs/crypto.c b/fs/ecryptfs/crypto.c
index 58609bde3b9f..7c50715c05d6 100644
--- a/fs/ecryptfs/crypto.c
+++ b/fs/ecryptfs/crypto.c
@@ -1943,7 +1943,7 @@ static unsigned char *portable_filename_chars
= ("-.0123456789ABCD"

/* We could either offset on every reverse map or just pad some 0x00's
* at the front here */
-static const unsigned char filename_rev_map[] = {
+static const unsigned char filename_rev_map[256] = {
0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, /* 7 */
0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, /* 15 */
0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, /* 23 */

instead?

Making invalid characters over \x50 be somehow magically different
from invalid characters elsewhere seems just totally bogus. There are
lots of characters that aren't valid, and they have the
filename_rev_map[] value of 0 elsewhere.

So the simpler one-liner is not only simpler, but gives much saner
semantics, I think - now invalid character '\x05' gets exactly the
same result as invalid character '\xf5'.

Hmm?

Linus


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