Re: [PATCH v3 5/6] NFSD: Protect against send buffer overflow in NFSv2 READ

[Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>]

On Thu, 2022-09-01 at 15:10 -0400, Chuck Lever wrote:
> Since before the git era, NFSD has conserved the number of pages
> held by each nfsd thread by combining the RPC receive and send
> buffers into a single array of pages. This works because there are
> no cases where an operation needs a large RPC Call message and a
> large RPC Reply at the same time.
> 
> Once an RPC Call has been received, svc_process() updates
> svc_rqst::rq_res to describe the part of rq_pages that can be
> used for constructing the Reply. This means that the send buffer
> (rq_res) shrinks when the received RPC record containing the RPC
> Call is large.
> 
> A client can force this shrinkage on TCP by sending a correctly-
> formed RPC Call header contained in an RPC record that is
> excessively large. The full maximum payload size cannot be
> constructed in that case.
> 
> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
> ---
>  fs/nfsd/nfsproc.c |    1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/nfsd/nfsproc.c b/fs/nfsd/nfsproc.c
> index ddb1902c0a18..4b19cc727ea5 100644
> --- a/fs/nfsd/nfsproc.c
> +++ b/fs/nfsd/nfsproc.c
> @@ -185,6 +185,7 @@ nfsd_proc_read(struct svc_rqst *rqstp)
>  		argp->count, argp->offset);
>  
>  	argp->count = min_t(u32, argp->count, NFSSVC_MAXBLKSIZE_V2);
> +	argp->count = min_t(u32, argp->count, rqstp->rq_res.buflen);
>  
>  	v = 0;
>  	len = argp->count;
> 
> 

Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>