Re: [PATCH] xfsprogs: fix Out-of-bounds access in repair/dinode.c

[Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>]

On Mon, 2013-08-26 at 12:40 -0500, Ben Myers wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 12:20:17PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> > On 8/23/13 11:38 AM, Ben Myers wrote:
> > > Hey Rich and Li Zhong,
> > > 
> > > On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 11:51:11AM -0500, Rich Johnston wrote:
> > >> Looks good, thanks for the patch Li Zhong. it has been committed.
> > >>
> > >> --Rich
> > >>
> > >> Reviewed-by: Rich Johnston <rjohnston@sgi.com>
> > >>
> > >> commit e7c05095f5baa9cd2e35a6de03d7dd9f51dd3910
> > >> Author: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> > >> Date:   Mon Aug 12 06:11:01 2013 +0000
> > >>
> > >>     xfsprogs: fix Out-of-bounds access in repair/dinode.c
> > >>
> > >> On 08/12/2013 01:11 AM, Li Zhong wrote:
> > >>> Following is reported by coverity in bug 1061528:
> > >>>
> > >>> 187                        __dirty_no_modify_ret(dirty);
> > >>>
> > >>> CID 1061528 (#1 of 1): Out-of-bounds access (OVERRUN)53. overrun-buffer-arg: Overrunning array "dinoc->di_pad" of 6 bytes by passing it to a function which accesses it at byte offset 15 using argument "16UL".
> > >>> 188                        memset(dinoc->di_pad, 0, 16);
> > >>>
> > >>> It seems that di_pad here should be di_pad2, as sekharan pointed out.
> > >>>
> > >>> Signed-off-by: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> > >>> ---
> > >>>  repair/dinode.c | 4 ++--
> > >>>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> > >>>
> > >>> diff --git a/repair/dinode.c b/repair/dinode.c
> > >>> index e607f0b..94bf2f8 100644
> > >>> --- a/repair/dinode.c
> > >>> +++ b/repair/dinode.c
> > >>> @@ -183,9 +183,9 @@ clear_dinode_core(struct xfs_mount *mp, xfs_dinode_t *dinoc, xfs_ino_t ino_num)
> > >>>  	}
> > >>>
> > >>>  	for (i = 0; i < 16; i++) {
> > >>> -		if (dinoc->di_pad[i] != 0) {
> > >>> +		if (dinoc->di_pad2[i] != 0) {
> > >>>  			__dirty_no_modify_ret(dirty);
> > >>> -			memset(dinoc->di_pad, 0, 16);
> > >>> +			memset(dinoc->di_pad2, 0, 16);
> > >>>  			break;
> > >>>  		}
> > >>>  	}
> > > 
> > > We also discussed this issue a bit in this thread:
> > > http://oss.sgi.com/archives/xfs/2013-08/msg00228.html
> > > 
> > > Looks like the loop itself is incorrect and should be removed, and Eric has
> > > suggested that the conditional be changed to a memcmp in case the size of the
> > > pad changes in the future.  Would either of you care to spin up another patch
> > > to clean it up?
> > 
> > I think I was confused; it seems fine as it is in git, not sure what I was
> > thinking.
> > 
> > memcmp can't use a bare "0" as an arg, so it's not ideal to use either.
> > 
> > Not a huge fan of the hard-coded 16, but I think the code is correct now; we
> > can probably move on to real problems.  ;)
> 
> 185         for (i = 0; i < 16; i++) {
> 186                 if (dinoc->di_pad2[i] != 0) {
> 187                         __dirty_no_modify_ret(dirty);
> 188                         memset(dinoc->di_pad2, 0, 16);
> 189                         break;
> 190                 }
> 191         }
> 
> D'oh!  I was mistaken too!
> 	
> I was thinking that line 188 read 'memset(&dinoc->di_pad2[i], 0, 16);' and that
> we were going off the end of the array as i increased...  Teach me to look a
> little closer.

I see, hehe

> 
> I agree that the current code is fine.
> 
> Apologies to Rich and Zhong.

No problem, and after the discussion, maybe we could improve the code by
removing the hard-coded 16 :)

Thanks, Zhong

> 
> -Ben
> 


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