Re: [PATCH] SUNRPC: Prevent kernel stack corruption on long values of flush

["J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>]

On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 04:00:49PM -0400, Jim Rees wrote:
> J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> 
>   On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 12:01:26AM +0200, Sasha Levin wrote:
>   > The buffer size in read_flush() is too small for the longest possible values
>   > for it. This can lead to a kernel stack corruption:
>   
>   Thanks!
>   
>   > 
>   > diff --git a/net/sunrpc/cache.c b/net/sunrpc/cache.c
>   > index 2afd2a8..f86d95e 100644
>   > --- a/net/sunrpc/cache.c
>   > +++ b/net/sunrpc/cache.c
>   > @@ -1409,11 +1409,11 @@ static ssize_t read_flush(struct file *file, char __user *buf,
>   >  			  size_t count, loff_t *ppos,
>   >  			  struct cache_detail *cd)
>   >  {
>   > -	char tbuf[20];
>   > +	char tbuf[22];
>   
>   I wonder how common this sort of calculation is in the kernel?  It might
>   provide some peace of mind to be able to write this something like
>   
>   	char tbuf[MAXLEN_BASE10_UL + 2]  /* + 2 for final "\n\0" */
> 
> You could use something like:
> 
>     char tbuf[sizeof (unsigned long) * 24 / 10 + 1 + 2]; /* + 2 for final "\n\0" */
> 
> since there are roughly 10 bits for every 3 decimal digits.

So we could do something like this.  OK, I'm not sure I care enough.

--b.

diff --git a/include/linux/string.h b/include/linux/string.h
index e033564..ed34180 100644
--- a/include/linux/string.h
+++ b/include/linux/string.h
@@ -126,6 +126,10 @@ extern void argv_free(char **argv);
 extern bool sysfs_streq(const char *s1, const char *s2);
 extern int strtobool(const char *s, bool *res);
 
+/* length of the decimal representation of an unsigned integer.  Just an
+ * approximation, but it's right for types of size 1 to 36 bytes: */
+#define base10len(i) (sizeof(i) * 24 / 10 + 1)
+
 #ifdef CONFIG_BINARY_PRINTF
 int vbin_printf(u32 *bin_buf, size_t size, const char *fmt, va_list args);
 int bstr_printf(char *buf, size_t size, const char *fmt, const u32 *bin_buf);
diff --git a/net/sunrpc/cache.c b/net/sunrpc/cache.c
index 2afd2a8..1dcd2b3 100644
--- a/net/sunrpc/cache.c
+++ b/net/sunrpc/cache.c
@@ -1409,7 +1409,7 @@ static ssize_t read_flush(struct file *file, char __user *buf,
 			  size_t count, loff_t *ppos,
 			  struct cache_detail *cd)
 {
-	char tbuf[20];
+	char tbuf[base10len(unsigned long) + 2];
 	unsigned long p = *ppos;
 	size_t len;