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* [PATCH v2] staging: lustre: Remove VLA usage
@ 2018-03-07 20:54 ` Kees Cook
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Kees Cook @ 2018-03-07 20:54 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Greg Kroah-Hartman
  Cc: linux-kernel, Rasmus Villemoes, Tobin C. Harding, Tycho Andersen,
	Oleg Drokin, Andreas Dilger, James Simmons, Dmitry Eremin,
	Gargi Sharma, Lustre Development List, devel, Kernel Hardening

The kernel would like to have all stack VLA usage removed[1]. This switches
to a simple kasprintf() instead, and in the process fixes an off-by-one
between the allocation and the sprintf (allocation did not include NULL
byte in calculation).

[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/3/7/621

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
---
 drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/llite/xattr.c | 19 +++++++++++++------
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/llite/xattr.c b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/llite/xattr.c
index 532384c91447..ff6fe81a4ddb 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/llite/xattr.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/llite/xattr.c
@@ -87,10 +87,10 @@ ll_xattr_set_common(const struct xattr_handler *handler,
 		    const char *name, const void *value, size_t size,
 		    int flags)
 {
-	char fullname[strlen(handler->prefix) + strlen(name) + 1];
 	struct ll_sb_info *sbi = ll_i2sbi(inode);
 	struct ptlrpc_request *req = NULL;
 	const char *pv = value;
+	char *fullname;
 	__u64 valid;
 	int rc;
 
@@ -141,10 +141,13 @@ ll_xattr_set_common(const struct xattr_handler *handler,
 			return -EPERM;
 	}
 
-	sprintf(fullname, "%s%s\n", handler->prefix, name);
+	fullname = kasprintf(GFP_KERNEL, "%s%s\n", handler->prefix, name);
+	if (!fullname)
+		return -ENOMEM;
 	rc = md_setxattr(sbi->ll_md_exp, ll_inode2fid(inode),
 			 valid, fullname, pv, size, 0, flags,
 			 ll_i2suppgid(inode), &req);
+	kfree(fullname);
 	if (rc) {
 		if (rc == -EOPNOTSUPP && handler->flags == XATTR_USER_T) {
 			LCONSOLE_INFO("Disabling user_xattr feature because it is not supported on the server\n");
@@ -364,11 +367,11 @@ static int ll_xattr_get_common(const struct xattr_handler *handler,
 			       struct dentry *dentry, struct inode *inode,
 			       const char *name, void *buffer, size_t size)
 {
-	char fullname[strlen(handler->prefix) + strlen(name) + 1];
 	struct ll_sb_info *sbi = ll_i2sbi(inode);
 #ifdef CONFIG_FS_POSIX_ACL
 	struct ll_inode_info *lli = ll_i2info(inode);
 #endif
+	char *fullname;
 	int rc;
 
 	CDEBUG(D_VFSTRACE, "VFS Op:inode=" DFID "(%p)\n",
@@ -411,9 +414,13 @@ static int ll_xattr_get_common(const struct xattr_handler *handler,
 	if (handler->flags == XATTR_ACL_DEFAULT_T && !S_ISDIR(inode->i_mode))
 		return -ENODATA;
 #endif
-	sprintf(fullname, "%s%s\n", handler->prefix, name);
-	return ll_xattr_list(inode, fullname, handler->flags, buffer, size,
-			     OBD_MD_FLXATTR);
+	fullname = kasprintf(GFP_KERNEL, "%s%s\n", handler->prefix, name);
+	if (!fullname)
+		return -ENOMEM;
+	rc = ll_xattr_list(inode, fullname, handler->flags, buffer, size,
+			   OBD_MD_FLXATTR);
+	kfree(fullname);
+	return rc;
 }
 
 static ssize_t ll_getxattr_lov(struct inode *inode, void *buf, size_t buf_size)
-- 
2.7.4


-- 
Kees Cook
Pixel Security

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