David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> cifs: Fix encryption of cleared, but unset rq_iter data buffers
>
> Each smb_rqst struct contains two things: an array of kvecs (rq_iov) that
> contains the protocol data for an RPC op and an iterator (rq_iter) that
> contains the data payload of an RPC op. When an smb_rqst is allocated
> rq_iter is it always cleared, but we don't set it up unless we're going to
> use it.
>
> The functions that determines the size of the ciphertext buffer that will
> be needed to encrypt a request, cifs_get_num_sgs(), assumes that rq_iter is
> always initialised - and employs user_backed_iter() to check that the
> iterator isn't user-backed. This used to incidentally work, because
> ->user_backed was set to false because the iterator has never been
> initialised, but with commit f1b4cb650b9a0eeba206d8f069fcdc532bfbcd74[1]
> which changes user_backed_iter() to determine this based on the iterator
> type insted, a warning is now emitted:
>
> WARNING: CPU: 7 PID: 4584 at fs/smb/client/cifsglob.h:2165 smb2_get_aead_req+0x3fc/0x420 [cifs]
> ...
> RIP: 0010:smb2_get_aead_req+0x3fc/0x420 [cifs]
> ...
> crypt_message+0x33e/0x550 [cifs]
> smb3_init_transform_rq+0x27d/0x3f0 [cifs]
> smb_send_rqst+0xc7/0x160 [cifs]
> compound_send_recv+0x3ca/0x9f0 [cifs]
> cifs_send_recv+0x25/0x30 [cifs]
> SMB2_tcon+0x38a/0x820 [cifs]
> cifs_get_smb_ses+0x69c/0xee0 [cifs]
> cifs_mount_get_session+0x76/0x1d0 [cifs]
> dfs_mount_share+0x74/0x9d0 [cifs]
> cifs_mount+0x6e/0x2e0 [cifs]
> cifs_smb3_do_mount+0x143/0x300 [cifs]
> smb3_get_tree+0x15e/0x290 [cifs]
> vfs_get_tree+0x2d/0xe0
> do_new_mount+0x124/0x340
> __se_sys_mount+0x143/0x1a0
>
> The problem is that rq_iter was never set, so the type is 0 (ie. ITER_UBUF)
> which causes user_backed_iter() to return true. The code doesn't
> malfunction because it checks the size of the iterator - which is 0.
>
> Fix cifs_get_num_sgs() to ignore rq_iter if its count is 0, thereby
> bypassing the warnings.
>
> It might be better to explicitly initialise rq_iter to a zero-length
> ITER_BVEC, say, as it can always be reinitialised later.
Agreed. We could probably set those in ->init_transform_rq().
> Fixes: d08089f649a0 ("cifs: Change the I/O paths to use an iterator rather than a page list")
> Reported-by: Damian Tometzki <damian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/ZUfQo47uo0p2ZsYg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx>
> cc: Steve French <smfrench@xxxxxxxxx>
> cc: Shyam Prasad N <sprasad@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> cc: Rohith Surabattula <rohiths.msft@xxxxxxxxx>
> cc: Paulo Alcantara <pc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> cc: Namjae Jeon <linkinjeon@xxxxxxxxxx>
> cc: Tom Talpey <tom@xxxxxxxxxx>
> cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx>
> cc: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx>
> cc: linux-cifs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> cc: linux-fsdevel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Link: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=f1b4cb650b9a0eeba206d8f069fcdc532bfbcd74 [1]
> ---
> fs/smb/client/cifsglob.h | 12 +++++++++---
> 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
FWIW, the patch fixes mounts of shares with encryption enabled.
Reviewed-by: Paulo Alcantara (SUSE) <pc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
