Re: [PATCH] Avoid array overflow in __nfs4_get_acl_uncached

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On Thu, 2012-09-06 at 15:46 +0100, Sachin Prabhu wrote:
> On Mon, 2012-09-03 at 19:11 +0000, Myklebust, Trond wrote:
> > > I encountered 2 problems. 
> > > 1) The if condition should be srclen >= pgbase + acl_len
> > > 2) There is a second _copy_from_pages which copies to the the acl to the
> > > passed buffer in __nfs4_get_acl_uncached().
> > 
> > The second copy from pages should already be covered by the checks in
> > decode_getacl. Alright, since this is not obvious, then clearly we need
> > to make it so. How about the following?
> 
> I could reproduce the crash with the second _copy_from_pages using the
> patch to PyNFS from
> http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-nfs/msg32359.html
> 
> The patch below works fine for both cases apart from a small bug which
> I've pointed to below.
> 
> > 8<------------------------------------------------------------------
> > From 5040240245a046bd58c383806b3f161ee8b5823b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> > From: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2012 11:44:43 -0700
> > Subject: [PATCH] NFSv4: Fix buffer overflow checking in
> >  __nfs4_get_acl_uncached

> > +		/* Check for receive buffer overflow */
> > +		if (attrlen > (xdr->nwords << 2) ||
> > +		    attrlen + pg_offset > xdr->buf->page_len) {
> 
> Here we need to use res->acl_data_offset which points to the start of
> the ACL data instead of pg_offset which points to the start of the pages
> section of the xdr_buf.
> 
> Once I changed this if condition, I was able to successfully test with
> my reproducer.

Oops... Yes, of course you are right. I'll make the modification and
push out the changed patch.

Thanks very much for testing! Do you want me to add a "Tested-by:" line?

-- 
Trond Myklebust
Linux NFS client maintainer

NetApp
Trond.Myklebust@xxxxxxxxxx
www.netapp.com

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