Re: [PATCH, V3 (sort of)] xfs: zero proper structure size for geometry calls

From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
To: aelder@sgi.com
Cc: Jeffrey Hundstad <jeffrey.hundstad@mnsu.edu>,
	Dan Rosenberg <drosenberg@vsecurity.com>,
	Eugene Teo <eugeneteo@kernel.org>,
	xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH, V3 (sort of)] xfs: zero proper structure size for geometry calls
Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2011 12:18:57 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D6D3891.5060908@sandeen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1299001800.2381.10.camel@doink>

On 3/1/11 11:50 AM, Alex Elder wrote:
> I'm sorry to muddy the waters with this.  But I think the
> proposed patch fixes the wrong problem.  Having xfs_fs_geometry()
> zero its argument is fine--it defines an interface and honors
> it.  The real problem lies in xfs_ioc_fsgeometry_v1(), which
> violates that interface by passing the address of an object
> that's not the right size.  So below is an alternative to
> Eric's solution which just fixes this one caller instead.
> 
> Eric has already told me this makes more sense.  It would
> be nice if Jeffrey would re-test this fix, and Dan would
> sign off on it as well.

Reviewed-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>

thanks,
-Eric

> 					-Alex
> 
> Commit 493f3358cb289ccf716c5a14fa5bb52ab75943e5 added this call to
> xfs_fs_geometry() in order to avoid passing kernel stack data back
> to user space:
> 
> +       memset(geo, 0, sizeof(*geo)); 
> 
> Unfortunately, one of the callers of that function passes the
> address of a smaller data type, cast to fit the type that
> xfs_fs_geometry() requires.  As a result, this can happen:
> 
> Kernel panic - not syncing: stack-protector: Kernel stack is corrupted
> in: f87aca93
> 
> Pid: 262, comm: xfs_fsr Not tainted 2.6.38-rc6-493f3358cb2+ #1
> Call Trace:
> 
> [<c12991ac>] ? panic+0x50/0x150
> [<c102ed71>] ? __stack_chk_fail+0x10/0x18
> [<f87aca93>] ? xfs_ioc_fsgeometry_v1+0x56/0x5d [xfs]
> 
> 
> Fix this by fixing that one caller to pass the right type and then
> copy out the subset it is interested in.
> 
> Note: This patch is an alternative to one originally proposed by
> Eric Sandeen.
> 
> Reported-by: Jeffrey Hundstad <jeffrey.hundstad@mnsu.edu>
> Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
> 
> ---
>  fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_ioctl.c |   11 ++++++++---
>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> Index: b/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_ioctl.c
> ===================================================================
> --- a/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_ioctl.c
> +++ b/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_ioctl.c
> @@ -695,14 +695,19 @@ xfs_ioc_fsgeometry_v1(
>         xfs_mount_t             *mp,
>         void                    __user *arg)
>  {
> -       xfs_fsop_geom_v1_t      fsgeo;
> +       xfs_fsop_geom_t         fsgeo;
>         int                     error;
> 
> -       error = xfs_fs_geometry(mp, (xfs_fsop_geom_t *)&fsgeo, 3);
> +       error = xfs_fs_geometry(mp, &fsgeo, 3);
>         if (error)
>                 return -error;
> 
> -       if (copy_to_user(arg, &fsgeo, sizeof(fsgeo)))
> +       /*
> +        * Caller should have passed an argument of type
> +        * xfs_fsop_geom_v1_t.  This is a proper subset of the
> +        * xfs_fsop_geom_t that xfs_fs_geometry() fills in.
> +        */
> +       if (copy_to_user(arg, &fsgeo, sizeof (xfs_fsop_geom_v1_t)))
>                 return -XFS_ERROR(EFAULT);
>         return 0;
>  }
> 
> 

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