[ 33/56] nfsd4: reject "negative" acl lengths

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-04-02T22:58:09Z

From: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@redhat.com>

commit 64a817cfbded8674f345d1117b117f942a351a69 upstream.

Since we only enforce an upper bound, not a lower bound, a "negative"
length can get through here.

The symptom seen was a warning when we attempt to a kmalloc with an
excessive size.

Reported-by: Toralf Förster <toralf.foerster@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
fs/nfsd/nfs4xdr.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/fs/nfsd/nfs4xdr.c
+++ b/fs/nfsd/nfs4xdr.c
@@ -262,7 +262,7 @@ nfsd4_decode_fattr(struct nfsd4_compound
iattr->ia_valid |= ATTR_SIZE;
}
if (bmval[0] & FATTR4_WORD0_ACL) {
- int nace;
+ u32 nace;
struct nfs4_ace *ace;

READ_BUF(4); len += 4;