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SubjectRe: [PATCH] dcache: fix dpath buffer corruption for too small buffers
On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 01:29:46AM +0200, Imre Deak wrote:
> During dentry path lookups we can end up corrupting memory if the
> destination path buffer is too small. This is because prepend_path()
> and prepend() adjust the passed buffer length unconditionally, allowing
> for the buffer length to go negative. Then a later prepend_name() call
> will receive a negative length and convert this to unsigned before
> comparing it against the source string length leading to a possible
> memory corruption preceeding the destination buffer.
>
> diff --git a/fs/dcache.c b/fs/dcache.c
> index 265e0ce..4015fd9 100644
> --- a/fs/dcache.c
> +++ b/fs/dcache.c
> @@ -2833,7 +2833,8 @@ static int prepend_name(char **buffer, int *buflen, struct qstr *name)
> u32 dlen = ACCESS_ONCE(name->len);
> char *p;
>
> - if (*buflen < dlen + 1)
> + /* make sure we don't convert a negative value to unsigned int */
> + if (*buflen < 0 || *buflen < dlen + 1)
> return -ENAMETOOLONG;
> *buflen -= dlen + 1;

It's much easier to fix, actually. Look at the callers of prepend_name();
when it returns a negative value, they either discard the value left in
*buflen (__dentry_path()) or pass it back to their caller and return a
negative value themselves (prepend_path()). The same is true for
prepend_path() (discared in __d_path(), d_absolute_path(), sys_getcwd();
passed to caller with negative return value in path_with_deleted()) and
path_with_deleted() (the only caller is d_path() and it always discards).

In other words, when prepend_name() returns -ENAMETOOLONG, it is free to
leave whatever it wants in *buflen. So let's do what prepend() does -
subtract from *buflen, then check if the result has become negative.
Generates a better code than the original, actually...


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