From: Chuck Lever <cel@kernel.org>
To: NeilBrown <neil@brown.name>, Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>,
Olga Kornievskaia <okorniev@redhat.com>,
Dai Ngo <dai.ngo@oracle.com>, Tom Talpey <tom@talpey.com>
Cc: <linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org>, Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Subject: [PATCH v4 0/4] Fix unwanted memory overwrites
Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2025 13:07:42 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20251012170746.9381-1-cel@kernel.org> (raw)
From: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
<rtm@csail.mit.edu> reported some memory overwrites that can be
triggered by NFS client input. I was able to observe overwrites
by enabling KASAN and running his reproducer [1].
NFSD caches COMPOUNDs containing only a single SEQUENCE operation
whether the client requests it to or not, in order to work around a
quirk in the NFSv4.1 protocol. However, the predicate that
identifies solo SEQUENCE operations was incorrect.
Changes since v3:
* Neil observes that in this code path, SEQUENCE always the first op
* Expanding the size of the replay cache buffer is unnecessary
* Reordered and simplified the remaining patches
* Haven't yet addressed imbalanced maxresponsesize values
Changes since v2:
* Never cache a COMPOUND if SEQUENCE fails
* Enable caching of solo SEQUENCE operations again
* Reserve enough slot replay cache space to cache solo SEQUENCE
Changes since v1:
* Reordered patches
* Disable caching of solo SEQUENCE operations
* Additional clean up
Chuck Lever (4):
NFSD: Skip close replay processing if XDR encoding fails
NFSD: Never cache a COMPOUND when the SEQUENCE operation fails
NFSD: Fix the "is this a solo SEQUENCE" predicate
NFSD: Move nfsd4_cache_this()
fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c | 37 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
fs/nfsd/nfs4xdr.c | 3 +--
fs/nfsd/xdr4.h | 21 ---------------------
3 files changed, 37 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)
--
2.51.0
next reply other threads:[~2025-10-12 17:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-10-12 17:07 Chuck Lever [this message]
2025-10-12 17:07 ` [PATCH v4 1/4] NFSD: Skip close replay processing if XDR encoding fails Chuck Lever
2025-10-13 4:28 ` NeilBrown
2025-10-12 17:07 ` [PATCH v4 2/4] NFSD: Never cache a COMPOUND when the SEQUENCE operation fails Chuck Lever
2025-10-13 4:31 ` NeilBrown
2025-10-12 17:07 ` [PATCH v4 3/4] NFSD: Fix the "is this a solo SEQUENCE" predicate Chuck Lever
2025-10-13 4:43 ` NeilBrown
2025-10-13 13:25 ` Chuck Lever
2025-10-13 23:39 ` NeilBrown
2025-10-12 17:07 ` [PATCH v4 4/4] NFSD: Move nfsd4_cache_this() Chuck Lever
2025-10-13 4:44 ` NeilBrown
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