On Wed, Jul 09, 2014 at 03:30:14PM +0400, Andrey Ryabinin wrote:
> We need to manually unpoison rounded up allocation size for dname
> to avoid kasan's reports in __d_lookup_rcu.
> __d_lookup_rcu may validly read a little beyound allocated size.
If it read a little beyond allocated size, IMHO, it is better to
allocate correct size.
kmalloc(name->len + 1, GFP_KERNEL); -->
kmalloc(roundup(name->len + 1, sizeof(unsigned long ), GFP_KERNEL);
Isn't it?
Thanks.
>
> Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Andrey Ryabinin <a.ryabinin@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> fs/dcache.c | 3 +++
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/fs/dcache.c b/fs/dcache.c
> index b7e8b20..dff64f2 100644
> --- a/fs/dcache.c
> +++ b/fs/dcache.c
> @@ -38,6 +38,7 @@
> #include <linux/prefetch.h>
> #include <linux/ratelimit.h>
> #include <linux/list_lru.h>
> +#include <linux/kasan.h>
> #include "internal.h"
> #include "mount.h"
>
> @@ -1412,6 +1413,8 @@ struct dentry *__d_alloc(struct super_block *sb, const struct qstr *name)
> kmem_cache_free(dentry_cache, dentry);
> return NULL;
> }
> + unpoison_shadow(dname,
> + roundup(name->len + 1, sizeof(unsigned long)));
> } else {
> dname = dentry->d_iname;
> }
> --
> 1.8.5.5
>
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