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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>,
	Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com>,
	Anna Schumaker <anna@kernel.org>
Cc: <linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH v1 2/2] nfs_common: Do not stream-encode an ACL with fewer than three entries
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2026 17:22:46 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260924212246.114355-3-cel@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260924212246.114355-1-cel@kernel.org>

nfs_stream_encode_acl() reports at least four wire entries for any
ACL that has entries, because a three-entry ACL is sent as four
with a synthesized ACL_MASK. The entry encoder then walks
a_entries[] up to that count. For an ACL with one or two entries,
which posix_acl_from_xattr() and the filesystem on-disk parsers do
not reject, the walk reads past the end of the posix_acl
allocation and copies the bytes into the GETACL reply.

Report zero wire entries for an ACL with fewer than three, the
same as for an ACL with none.

Fixes: 8edc0648880a ("NFSD: Add an xdr_stream-based encoder for NFSv2/3 ACLs")
Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <cel@kernel.org>
---
 fs/nfs_common/nfsacl.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/nfs_common/nfsacl.c b/fs/nfs_common/nfsacl.c
index 38bb2c294d7c..24ee7f622b18 100644
--- a/fs/nfs_common/nfsacl.c
+++ b/fs/nfs_common/nfsacl.c
@@ -157,7 +157,8 @@ bool nfs_stream_encode_acl(struct xdr_stream *xdr, struct inode *inode,
 			   int typeflag)
 {
 	const size_t elem_size = XDR_UNIT * 3;
-	u32 entries = (acl && acl->a_count) ? max_t(int, acl->a_count, 4) : 0;
+	u32 entries = (acl && acl->a_count >= 3) ?
+		      max_t(int, acl->a_count, 4) : 0;
 	struct nfsacl_encode_desc nfsacl_desc = {
 		.desc = {
 			.elem_size = elem_size,
-- 
2.55.0


      parent reply	other threads:[~2026-09-24 21:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-09-24 21:22 [PATCH v1 0/2] nfs_common: Encode an ACL with fewer than three entries as empty Chuck Lever
2026-09-24 21:22 ` [PATCH v1 1/2] nfs_common: Do not encode an ACL with fewer than three entries Chuck Lever
2026-10-02 17:24   ` Anna Schumaker
2026-09-24 21:22 ` Chuck Lever [this message]

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