This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled NFSv4: Fix the string length returned by the idmapper to the 3.8-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: nfsv4-fix-the-string-length-returned-by-the-idmapper.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.8 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From cf4ab538f1516606d3ae730dce15d6f33d96b7e1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2013 12:56:37 -0500 Subject: NFSv4: Fix the string length returned by the idmapper From: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@xxxxxxxxxx> commit cf4ab538f1516606d3ae730dce15d6f33d96b7e1 upstream. Functions like nfs_map_uid_to_name() and nfs_map_gid_to_group() are expected to return a string without any terminating NUL character. Regression introduced by commit 57e62324e469e092ecc6c94a7a86fe4bd6ac5172 (NFS: Store the legacy idmapper result in the keyring). Reported-by: Dave Chiluk <dave.chiluk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Bryan Schumaker <bjschuma@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/nfs/idmap.c | 13 ++++++++----- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) --- a/fs/nfs/idmap.c +++ b/fs/nfs/idmap.c @@ -725,9 +725,9 @@ out1: return ret; } -static int nfs_idmap_instantiate(struct key *key, struct key *authkey, char *data) +static int nfs_idmap_instantiate(struct key *key, struct key *authkey, char *data, size_t datalen) { - return key_instantiate_and_link(key, data, strlen(data) + 1, + return key_instantiate_and_link(key, data, datalen, id_resolver_cache->thread_keyring, authkey); } @@ -737,6 +737,7 @@ static int nfs_idmap_read_and_verify_mes struct key *key, struct key *authkey) { char id_str[NFS_UINT_MAXLEN]; + size_t len; int ret = -ENOKEY; /* ret = -ENOKEY */ @@ -746,13 +747,15 @@ static int nfs_idmap_read_and_verify_mes case IDMAP_CONV_NAMETOID: if (strcmp(upcall->im_name, im->im_name) != 0) break; - sprintf(id_str, "%d", im->im_id); - ret = nfs_idmap_instantiate(key, authkey, id_str); + /* Note: here we store the NUL terminator too */ + len = sprintf(id_str, "%d", im->im_id) + 1; + ret = nfs_idmap_instantiate(key, authkey, id_str, len); break; case IDMAP_CONV_IDTONAME: if (upcall->im_id != im->im_id) break; - ret = nfs_idmap_instantiate(key, authkey, im->im_name); + len = strlen(im->im_name); + ret = nfs_idmap_instantiate(key, authkey, im->im_name, len); break; default: ret = -EINVAL; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from Trond.Myklebust@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.8/sunrpc-add-barriers-to-ensure-read-ordering-in-rpc_wake_up_task_queue_locked.patch queue-3.8/pnfs-block-removing-dm-device-maybe-cause-oops-when-call-dev_remove.patch queue-3.8/nfsv4.1-fix-a-race-in-pnfs-layoutcommit.patch queue-3.8/nfsv4.1-always-clear-the-nfs_ino_layoutcommit-in-layoutreturn.patch queue-3.8/nfsv4-fix-the-string-length-returned-by-the-idmapper.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html