From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: linux-nfs-owner@vger.kernel.org Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:44690 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754980Ab3EHMj6 (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 May 2013 08:39:58 -0400 Subject: Re: SUNRPC: Add RPC based upcall mechanism for RPCGSS auth From: Simo Sorce To: "J. Bruce Fields" Cc: Dan Carpenter , linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20130507214950.GD27004@pad.fieldses.org> References: <20130506154435.GA14732@elgon.mountain> <1367855693.2976.205.camel@willson.li.ssimo.org> <20130507214950.GD27004@pad.fieldses.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Tue, 07 May 2013 17:57:08 -0400 Message-ID: <1367963828.20220.63.camel@willson.li.ssimo.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-nfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, 2013-05-07 at 17:49 -0400, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > On Mon, May 06, 2013 at 11:54:53AM -0400, Simo Sorce wrote: > > On Mon, 2013-05-06 at 18:44 +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote: > > > Hello Simo Sorce, > > > > > > The patch 1d658336b05f: "SUNRPC: Add RPC based upcall mechanism for > > > RPCGSS auth" from May 25, 2012, leads to the following warning: > > > "net/sunrpc/auth_gss/gss_rpc_xdr.c:30 gssx_check_pointer() > > > warn: signedness bug returning '(-28)'" > > > > > > net/sunrpc/auth_gss/gss_rpc_xdr.c > > > 24 static bool gssx_check_pointer(struct xdr_stream *xdr) > > > 25 { > > > 26 __be32 *p; > > > 27 > > > 28 p = xdr_reserve_space(xdr, 4); > > > 29 if (unlikely(p == NULL)) > > > 30 return -ENOSPC; > > > ^^^^^^^ > > > This is casted implicitly to "true". Functions named "check" are a bad > > > idea anyways because it's not clear what the return value will be. It's > > > better to use "gssx_pointer_ok()" or "valid" where obviously true means > > > that the pointer is ok. > > > > > > 31 return *p?true:false; > > > > > > We just reserved "*p" so doesn't this point to uninitialized data? It > > > points to a __be32. So we're not really checking a pointer we're > > > checking that __be32 is non-zero. > > > > > > 32 } > > > > > > regards, > > > dan carpenter > > > > Dan, > > thanks a lot for pointing this one out. > > Yes, thanks! > > > Bruce, > > we should fix it in 3.10 if we can make it. > > Agreed. Probably the following attempt to decode will fail with an > -ENOSPC anyway, but this is ugly at least. > > > probably easiest way is to kill lines 29/30 and do: > > return (p && *p) ? true : false; > > > > It would be also ok to change the name to gssx_pointer_is_valid() I > > guess. > > It still seems a little yuch to lump a decoding failure with a succesful > decode of a particular value.... > > How about just killing gssx_check_pointer, as follows. Admittedly it's > a bit verbose, but it's straightforward. Any objections? none if it works the same. Simo. > --b. > > commit fb43f11c666a4f99f23f0be4fa528dcd288c0da2 > Author: J. Bruce Fields > Date: Tue May 7 17:45:20 2013 -0400 > > SUNRPC: fix decoding of optional gss-proxy xdr fields > > The current code works, but sort of by accident: it obviously didn't > intend the error return to be interpreted as "true". > > Reported-by: Dan Carpenter > Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields > > diff --git a/net/sunrpc/auth_gss/gss_rpc_xdr.c b/net/sunrpc/auth_gss/gss_rpc_xdr.c > index a1e1b1a..357f613 100644 > --- a/net/sunrpc/auth_gss/gss_rpc_xdr.c > +++ b/net/sunrpc/auth_gss/gss_rpc_xdr.c > @@ -21,16 +21,6 @@ > #include > #include "gss_rpc_xdr.h" > > -static bool gssx_check_pointer(struct xdr_stream *xdr) > -{ > - __be32 *p; > - > - p = xdr_reserve_space(xdr, 4); > - if (unlikely(p == NULL)) > - return -ENOSPC; > - return *p?true:false; > -} > - > static int gssx_enc_bool(struct xdr_stream *xdr, int v) > { > __be32 *p; > @@ -802,6 +792,7 @@ int gssx_dec_accept_sec_context(struct rpc_rqst *rqstp, > struct xdr_stream *xdr, > struct gssx_res_accept_sec_context *res) > { > + u32 value_follows; > int err; > > /* res->status */ > @@ -810,7 +801,10 @@ int gssx_dec_accept_sec_context(struct rpc_rqst *rqstp, > return err; > > /* res->context_handle */ > - if (gssx_check_pointer(xdr)) { > + err = gssx_dec_bool(xdr, &value_follows); > + if (err) > + return err; > + if (value_follows) { > err = gssx_dec_ctx(xdr, res->context_handle); > if (err) > return err; > @@ -819,7 +813,10 @@ int gssx_dec_accept_sec_context(struct rpc_rqst *rqstp, > } > > /* res->output_token */ > - if (gssx_check_pointer(xdr)) { > + err = gssx_dec_bool(xdr, &value_follows); > + if (err) > + return err; > + if (value_follows) { > err = gssx_dec_buffer(xdr, res->output_token); > if (err) > return err; > @@ -828,7 +825,10 @@ int gssx_dec_accept_sec_context(struct rpc_rqst *rqstp, > } > > /* res->delegated_cred_handle */ > - if (gssx_check_pointer(xdr)) { > + err = gssx_dec_bool(xdr, &value_follows); > + if (err) > + return err; > + if (value_follows) { > /* we do not support upcall servers sending this data. */ > return -EINVAL; > } -- Simo Sorce * Red Hat, Inc * New York