Re: [PATCH] fc_transport: Write outside array bounds

[James Smart <James.Smart@Emulex.Com>]

This shouldn't be the case, and if it is, isn't the right way to handle it.
It may simply be someone forgot to update FC_HOST_NUM_ATTRS. I'll double
check and get back shortly.

-- james s


Roel Kluin wrote:
> If it's possible to turn on all the optional attributes, there are more
> attributes than the length of array i->private_host_attrs[], so the last one
> will be out-of-bounds. (There is a BUG_ON there, but it's after the write,
> rather than before).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com>
> ---
> Found with Parfait, http://research.sun.com/projects/parfait/
> 
> in fc_attach_transport()
> ...
> count=0;
> 14 x SETUP_HOST_ATTRIBUTE_RD()
> if (ft->vport_create)
> 	2 x SETUP_HOST_ATTRIBUTE_RD_NS()
> 1 x SETUP_HOST_ATTRIBUTE_RW()
> 1 - 4 x SETUP_PRIVATE_HOST_ATTRIBUTE_RW()
> 
> all these definitions set private_host_attrs[count] (21 elements)
> and increase the index count thereafter.
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_fc.c b/drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_fc.c
> index 292c02f..8092e56 100644
> --- a/drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_fc.c
> +++ b/drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_fc.c
> @@ -2123,8 +2123,12 @@ fc_attach_transport(struct fc_function_template *ft)
>  		SETUP_PRIVATE_HOST_ATTRIBUTE_RW(issue_lip);
>  	if (ft->vport_create)
>  		SETUP_PRIVATE_HOST_ATTRIBUTE_RW(vport_create);
> -	if (ft->vport_delete)
> -		SETUP_PRIVATE_HOST_ATTRIBUTE_RW(vport_delete);
> +	if (ft->vport_delete) {
> +		if(count < FC_HOST_NUM_ATTRS)
> +			SETUP_PRIVATE_HOST_ATTRIBUTE_RW(vport_delete);
> +		else
> +			count++;
> +	}
>  
>  	BUG_ON(count > FC_HOST_NUM_ATTRS);
>  
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