Re: [PATCH] nfsd: fix memory corruption due to uninitialized variable

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On 01/18/2015 10:43 PM, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 7:29 AM, Junxiao Bi <junxiao.bi@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> nfsd4_decode_open() doesn't initialize variable open->op_file and
>> open->op_stp, they are initialized in nfsd4_process_open1(), but if
>> any error happens before initializing them, nfsd4_open() will call
>> into nfsd4_cleanup_open_state() and corrupt the memory.
>>
>> Since nfsd4_process_open1() will initialize these two variables and
>> open->op_openowner, make them default to null at the beginning.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Junxiao Bi <junxiao.bi@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>>  fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c |    4 ++++
>>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c b/fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c
>> index c06a1ba..6e74a91 100644
>> --- a/fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c
>> +++ b/fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c
>> @@ -3547,6 +3547,10 @@ nfsd4_process_open1(struct nfsd4_compound_state *cstate,
>>         struct nfs4_openowner *oo = NULL;
>>         __be32 status;
>>
>> +       open->op_file = NULL;
>> +       open->op_openowner = NULL;
>> +       open->op_stp = NULL;
>> +
>>         if (STALE_CLIENTID(&open->op_clientid, nn))
>>                 return nfserr_stale_clientid;
>>         /*
> 
> Have you ever seen an instance of this corruption? I would have
> thought that the kzalloc() in nfsd4_decode_compound() and/or the
> earlier memset() in svc_process_common() would ensure that these
> fields are always initialised to NULL.
Yes, we got the following panic from 3.8.13. The bad pointer
open->op_stp was freed into kmem_cache array_cache, and was allocated to
next "op_stp" allocation request which triggered the panic.


@ PID: 21663  TASK: ffff8809fe6103c0  CPU: 0   COMMAND: "nfsd"
@ #0 [ffff8809fe613980] machine_kexec at ffffffff810421d9
@ #1 [ffff8809fe6139f0] crash_kexec at ffffffff810c9d39
@ #2 [ffff8809fe613ac0] oops_end at ffffffff81599298
@ #3 [ffff8809fe613af0] die at ffffffff8101870b
@ #4 [ffff8809fe613b20] do_general_protection at ffffffff8159906c
@ #5 [ffff8809fe613b50] general_protection at ffffffff81598668
@    [exception RIP: init_stid+14]
@    RIP: ffffffffa058247e  RSP: ffff8809fe613c08  RFLAGS: 00010292
@    RAX: 0000000000000000  RBX: 736e61727465722c  RCX: 0000000000000000
@    RDX: 0000000000000001  RSI: ffff8808e433a800  RDI: 736e61727465722c
@    RBP: ffff8809fe613c28   R8: ffff880a01469000   R9: 0000000000000000
@    R10: 0000000000000000  R11: 0000000000000000  R12: ffff8808e19821a0
@    R13: ffff8809aa40f3a8  R14: ffff8809fd781040  R15: ffff8809aafc9c98
@    ORIG_RAX: ffffffffffffffff  CS: 0010  SS: 0018
@ #6 [ffff8809fe613c30] nfsd4_process_open2 at ffffffffa0588123 [nfsd]
@ #7 [ffff8809fe613d00] nfsd4_open at ffffffffa0577e82 [nfsd]
@ #8 [ffff8809fe613d50] nfsd4_proc_compound at ffffffffa0575de8 [nfsd]
@ #9 [ffff8809fe613db0] nfsd_dispatch at ffffffffa056429b [nfsd]
@ #10 [ffff8809fe613df0] svc_process_common at ffffffffa04afd14 [sunrpc]
@ #11 [ffff8809fe613e70] svc_process at ffffffffa04b034f [sunrpc]
@ #12 [ffff8809fe613e90] nfsd at ffffffffa05649ff [nfsd]
@ #13 [ffff8809fe613ec0] kthread at ffffffff81082f4e
@ #14 [ffff8809fe613f50] ret_from_fork at ffffffff815a09ac

Thanks,
Junxiao.

> 
> Cheers
>   Trond
> 

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