On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 03:01:17PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Fri, 31 Aug 2018 15:05:38 +0100 Colin King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Currently extent and index i are both being incremented causing
> > an array out of bounds read on extent[i]. Fix this by removing
> > the extraneous increment of extent.
> >
> > Detected by CoverityScan, CID#711541 ("Out of bounds read")
> >
> > Fixes: d1081202f1d0 ("HFS rewrite")
>
> No such commit here. I assume this is 7cb74be6fd827e314f8.
Sorry, I missed that. This bug has actually been here since before the
first git commit.
>
> > --- a/fs/hfs/extent.c
> > +++ b/fs/hfs/extent.c
> > @@ -300,7 +300,7 @@ int hfs_free_fork(struct super_block *sb, struct hfs_cat_file *file, int type)
> > return 0;
> >
> > blocks = 0;
> > - for (i = 0; i < 3; extent++, i++)
> > + for (i = 0; i < 3; i++)
> > blocks += be16_to_cpu(extent[i].count);
> >
> > res = hfs_free_extents(sb, extent, blocks, blocks);
>
> Well, that's quite the bug. Question is, why didn't anyone notice it.
> What are the runtime effects?
This is only triggered when deleting a file with a resource fork. I may
be wrong because the documentation isn't clear, but I don't think you can
create those under linux. So I guess nobody was testing them.
> A disk space leak, perhaps?
That's what it looks like in general. hfs_free_extents() won't do anything
if the block count doesn't add up, and the error will be ignored. Now, if
the block count randomly does add up, we could see some corruption.
> I worry a bit that, given the fs was evidently working "ok", perhaps
> this error was corrected elsewhere in the code and that "fixing" this
> site will have unexpected and undesirable runtime effects. Can someone
> help me out here?
I don't think so. This bug also makes extent point to the wrong place on
the following call to hfs_free_extents(). There is no way this can work
correctly in general.
