This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ceph: avoid accessing invalid memory to the 3.10-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: ceph-avoid-accessing-invalid-memory.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.10 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 5446429630257f4723829409337a26c076907d5d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2013 18:33:39 -0400 Subject: ceph: avoid accessing invalid memory From: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 5446429630257f4723829409337a26c076907d5d upstream. when mounting ceph with a dev name that starts with a slash, ceph would attempt to access the character before that slash. Since we don't actually own that byte of memory, we would trigger an invalid access: [ 43.499934] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffff880fa3a97fff [ 43.500984] IP: [<ffffffff818f3884>] parse_mount_options+0x1a4/0x300 [ 43.501491] PGD 743b067 PUD 10283c4067 PMD 10282a6067 PTE 8000000fa3a97060 [ 43.502301] Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC [ 43.503006] Dumping ftrace buffer: [ 43.503596] (ftrace buffer empty) [ 43.504046] CPU: 0 PID: 10879 Comm: mount Tainted: G W 3.10.0-sasha #1129 [ 43.504851] task: ffff880fa625b000 ti: ffff880fa3412000 task.ti: ffff880fa3412000 [ 43.505608] RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff818f3884>] [<ffffffff818f3884>] parse_mount_options$ [ 43.506552] RSP: 0018:ffff880fa3413d08 EFLAGS: 00010286 [ 43.507133] RAX: ffff880fa3a98000 RBX: ffff880fa3a98000 RCX: 0000000000000000 [ 43.507893] RDX: ffff880fa3a98001 RSI: 000000000000002f RDI: ffff880fa3a98000 [ 43.508610] RBP: ffff880fa3413d58 R08: 0000000000001f99 R09: ffff880fa3fe64c0 [ 43.509426] R10: ffff880fa3413d98 R11: ffff880fa38710d8 R12: ffff880fa3413da0 [ 43.509792] R13: ffff880fa3a97fff R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ffff880fa3413d90 [ 43.509792] FS: 00007fa9c48757e0(0000) GS:ffff880fd2600000(0000) knlGS:000000000000$ [ 43.509792] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b [ 43.509792] CR2: ffff880fa3a97fff CR3: 0000000fa3bb9000 CR4: 00000000000006b0 [ 43.509792] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 [ 43.509792] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 [ 43.509792] Stack: [ 43.509792] 0000e5180000000e ffffffff85ca1900 ffff880fa38710d8 ffff880fa3413d98 [ 43.509792] 0000000000000120 0000000000000000 ffff880fa3a98000 0000000000000000 [ 43.509792] ffffffff85cf32a0 0000000000000000 ffff880fa3413dc8 ffffffff818f3c72 [ 43.509792] Call Trace: [ 43.509792] [<ffffffff818f3c72>] ceph_mount+0xa2/0x390 [ 43.509792] [<ffffffff81226314>] ? pcpu_alloc+0x334/0x3c0 [ 43.509792] [<ffffffff81282f8d>] mount_fs+0x8d/0x1a0 [ 43.509792] [<ffffffff812263d0>] ? __alloc_percpu+0x10/0x20 [ 43.509792] [<ffffffff8129f799>] vfs_kern_mount+0x79/0x100 [ 43.509792] [<ffffffff812a224d>] do_new_mount+0xcd/0x1c0 [ 43.509792] [<ffffffff812a2e8d>] do_mount+0x15d/0x210 [ 43.509792] [<ffffffff81220e55>] ? strndup_user+0x45/0x60 [ 43.509792] [<ffffffff812a2fdd>] SyS_mount+0x9d/0xe0 [ 43.509792] [<ffffffff83fd816c>] tracesys+0xdd/0xe2 [ 43.509792] Code: 4c 8b 5d c0 74 0a 48 8d 50 01 49 89 14 24 eb 17 31 c0 48 83 c9 ff $ [ 43.509792] RIP [<ffffffff818f3884>] parse_mount_options+0x1a4/0x300 [ 43.509792] RSP <ffff880fa3413d08> [ 43.509792] CR2: ffff880fa3a97fff [ 43.509792] ---[ end trace 22469cd81e93af51 ]--- Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Sage Weil <sage@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/ceph/super.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/fs/ceph/super.c +++ b/fs/ceph/super.c @@ -357,7 +357,7 @@ static int parse_mount_options(struct ce } err = -EINVAL; dev_name_end--; /* back up to ':' separator */ - if (*dev_name_end != ':') { + if (dev_name_end < dev_name || *dev_name_end != ':') { pr_err("device name is missing path (no : separator in %s)\n", dev_name); goto out; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from sasha.levin@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.10/ceph-avoid-accessing-invalid-memory.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