linux-kernel - [PATCH] sunrpc - fixup userspace buffer possible overrun v3

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Date:	Sun, 31 Aug 2008 19:25:49 +0400
From:	Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com>
To:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:	Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@...il.com>,
	Ingo Oeser <ioe-lkml@...eria.de>, bfields@...ldses.org,
	neilb@...e.de
Subject: [PATCH] sunrpc - fixup userspace buffer possible overrun v3

Vegard Nossum reported
----------------------
> 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.

David Wagner added (among other things) that copy_to_user could be
probably used here.

Ingo Oeser suggested to use simple_read_from_buffer() here.

The conclusion is that proc_do_xprt doesn't check for userside buffer
size indeed so fix this by using Ingo's suggestion.

Reported-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@...il.com>
Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com>
CC: Ingo Oeser <ioe-lkml@...eria.de>
---

Index: linux-2.6.git/net/sunrpc/sysctl.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.git.orig/net/sunrpc/sysctl.c	2008-08-31 18:58:50.000000000 +0400
+++ linux-2.6.git/net/sunrpc/sysctl.c	2008-08-31 19:15:57.000000000 +0400
@@ -60,23 +60,27 @@ static int proc_do_xprt(ctl_table *table
 			void __user *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos)
 {
 	char tmpbuf[256];
-	int len;
+	size_t len;
+	ssize_t ret;
+
 	if ((*ppos && !write) || !*lenp) {
 		*lenp = 0;
 		return 0;
 	}
+
 	if (write)
 		return -EINVAL;
 	else {
 		len = svc_print_xprts(tmpbuf, sizeof(tmpbuf));
-		if (!access_ok(VERIFY_WRITE, buffer, len))
-			return -EFAULT;
-
-		if (__copy_to_user(buffer, tmpbuf, len))
-			return -EFAULT;
+		ret = simple_read_from_buffer(buffer, *lenp, ppos,
+						tmpbuf, len);
+		if (ret >= 0) {
+			*lenp = ret;
+			ret = 0;
+		}
+		return ret;
 	}
-	*lenp -= len;
-	*ppos += len;
+
 	return 0;
 }
 
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