linux-kernel - Re: buffer overflow in /proc/sys/sunrpc/transports

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Date:	Sat, 30 Aug 2008 23:06:42 +0400
From:	Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com>
To:	Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@...il.com>
Cc:	Tom Tucker <tom@...ngridcomputing.com>, Neil Brown <neilb@...e.de>,
	Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@...cle.com>, Greg Banks <gnb@....com>,
	"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@...i.umich.edu>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: buffer overflow in /proc/sys/sunrpc/transports

[Vegard Nossum - Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 08:44:22PM +0200]
| Hi,
| 
| I noticed that something weird is going on with /proc/sys/sunrpc/transports.
| This file is generated in net/sunrpc/sysctl.c, function proc_do_xprt(). When
| I "cat" this file, I get the expected output:
| 
|     $ cat /proc/sys/sunrpc/transports 
|     tcp 1048576
|     udp 32768
| 
| But I think that it does not check the length of the buffer supplied by
| userspace to read(). With my original program, I found that the stack was
| being overwritten by the characters above, even when the length given to
| read() was just 1. So I have created a test program, see it at the bottom of
| this e-mail. Here is its output:
| 
...

Indeed, maybe just add checking for user buffer length?
As proc_dodebug() in this file are doing. I don't think
the user would be happy with his stack burned :)

Something like:
---

Index: linux-2.6.git/net/sunrpc/sysctl.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.git.orig/net/sunrpc/sysctl.c	2008-07-20 11:40:14.000000000 +0400
+++ linux-2.6.git/net/sunrpc/sysctl.c	2008-08-30 23:05:30.000000000 +0400
@@ -69,6 +69,8 @@ static int proc_do_xprt(ctl_table *table
 		return -EINVAL;
 	else {
 		len = svc_print_xprts(tmpbuf, sizeof(tmpbuf));
+		if (*lenp < len)
+			return -EFAULT;
 		if (!access_ok(VERIFY_WRITE, buffer, len))
 			return -EFAULT;

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