Re: Bug#549002: [PATCH] nfs: Avoid overrun when copying client IP address string

[Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>]

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On Sun, 2009-10-04 at 18:33 -0400, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> On Sun, 2009-10-04 at 14:25 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > As seen in <http://bugs.debian.org/549002>, nfs4_init_client() can
> > overrun the source string when copying the client IP address from
> > nfs_parsed_mount_data::client_address to nfs_client::cl_ipaddr.  Since
> > these are both treated as null-terminated strings elsewhere, the copy
> > should be done with strlcpy() not memcpy().
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
> > ---
> > diff --git a/fs/nfs/client.c b/fs/nfs/client.c
> > index 75c9cd2..f525a2f 100644
> > --- a/fs/nfs/client.c
> > +++ b/fs/nfs/client.c
> > @@ -1073,7 +1073,7 @@ static int nfs4_init_client(struct nfs_client *clp,
> >  				      1, flags & NFS_MOUNT_NORESVPORT);
> >  	if (error < 0)
> >  		goto error;
> > -	memcpy(clp->cl_ipaddr, ip_addr, sizeof(clp->cl_ipaddr));
> > +	strlcpy(clp->cl_ipaddr, ip_addr, sizeof(clp->cl_ipaddr));
> >  
> >  	error = nfs_idmap_new(clp);
> >  	if (error < 0) {
> 
> It looks good, so I'll push it upstream. I assume the bug report also
> applies to stable@kernel.org?

This bug appears to have been present "forever", though I think it has
become a practical problem since nfs_client::cl_ipaddr was enlarged to
48 bytes in v2.6.25.  So yes, the bug and fix are applicable to every
stable series.

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings
I say we take off; nuke the site from orbit.  It's the only way to be sure.

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