Re: [PATCH] xfs: fix memory exposure problems

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On 4/1/17 2:04 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 06:29:34PM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
>> Fix a couple of memory exposure problems in the getbmap implementation
>> where we copy too much header data from userspace, and a second problem
>> in inumbers where we allocate an array of structures with holes, fail to
>> zero the holes, then blindly copy the kernel memory contents into
>> userspace.
> 
> This should be two different patches.
> 
>> --- a/fs/xfs/xfs_ioctl.c
>> +++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_ioctl.c
>> @@ -1547,10 +1547,10 @@ xfs_ioc_getbmap(
>>  	unsigned int		cmd,
>>  	void			__user *arg)
>>  {
>> -	struct getbmapx		bmx;
>> +	struct getbmapx		bmx = {0};
> 
> missing spaces around the zero.
> 
>>  	int			error;
>>  
>> -	if (copy_from_user(&bmx, arg, sizeof(struct getbmapx)))
>> +	if (copy_from_user(&bmx, arg, sizeof(struct getbmap)))
>>  		return -EFAULT;
> 
> This really needs a comment on how struct getbmap is a strict subset
> of struct getbmapx.  Or even better don't use getbmap at all
> and use offsetoff on struct getbmapx.  

Agreed, was going to make the same observation.

-Eric

>> diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_itable.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_itable.c
>> index e775f78..55642cd 100644
>> --- a/fs/xfs/xfs_itable.c
>> +++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_itable.c
>> @@ -584,7 +584,7 @@ xfs_inumbers(
>>  		return error;
>>  
>>  	bcount = MIN(left, (int)(PAGE_SIZE / sizeof(*buffer)));
>> -	buffer = kmem_alloc(bcount * sizeof(*buffer), KM_SLEEP);
>> +	buffer = kmem_zalloc(bcount * sizeof(*buffer), KM_SLEEP);
> 
> This looks fine:
> 
> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
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