linux-kernel - Checking link targets are NULL-terminated

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Date:	Fri, 5 Dec 2008 14:48:10 +0000
From:	"Duane Griffin" <duaneg@...da.com>
To:	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Checking link targets are NULL-terminated

Hi folks,

I am looking at a report of an intermittent BUG caused by an
intentionally corrupted ext2 filesystem:
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11412

What I think is happening is generic_readlink gets the name via
i_ops->follow_link and passes it into vfs_readlink, without it
necessarily being validating anywhere. If the name is not
NULL-terminated the strlen call in vfs_readlink may run off past the end
of the page. I think this is potentially happening in
page_follow_link_light, as well as ext2_follow_link, so it isn't just
ext* that is affected.

Does this sound correct, or have I missed something?

Assuming this is a real problem, does anyone have a better solution than
scanning the name for a \0 (in ext2_follow_link and
page_follow_link_light) and returning -ENAMETOOLONG if we can't find
one? I.e. something like this:

diff --git a/fs/ext2/symlink.c b/fs/ext2/symlink.c
index 4e2426e..9b01af2 100644
--- a/fs/ext2/symlink.c
+++ b/fs/ext2/symlink.c
@@ -24,8 +24,14 @@
 static void *ext2_follow_link(struct dentry *dentry, struct nameidata *nd)
 {
 	struct ext2_inode_info *ei = EXT2_I(dentry->d_inode);
-	nd_set_link(nd, (char *)ei->i_data);
-	return NULL;
+	void *err = NULL;
+
+	if (memchr(ei->i_data, 0, sizeof(ei->i_data)) == NULL)
+		err = ERR_PTR(-ENAMETOOLONG);
+	else
+		nd_set_link(nd, (char *)ei->i_data);
+
+	return err;
 }
 
 const struct inode_operations ext2_symlink_inode_operations = {
diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c
index d34e0f9..f20e94b 100644
--- a/fs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/namei.c
@@ -2750,29 +2750,49 @@ static char *page_getlink(struct dentry * dentry, struct page **ppage)
 {
 	struct page * page;
 	struct address_space *mapping = dentry->d_inode->i_mapping;
+	char *kaddr;
+
 	page = read_mapping_page(mapping, 0, NULL);
 	if (IS_ERR(page))
 		return (char*)page;
+
+	kaddr = kmap(page);
+	if (memchr(kaddr, 0, PAGE_SIZE) == NULL) {
+		kunmap(kaddr);
+		page_cache_release(page);
+		return ERR_PTR(-ENAMETOOLONG);
+	}
+
 	*ppage = page;
-	return kmap(page);
+	return kaddr;
 }
 
 int page_readlink(struct dentry *dentry, char __user *buffer, int buflen)
 {
+	int res;
 	struct page *page = NULL;
 	char *s = page_getlink(dentry, &page);
-	int res = vfs_readlink(dentry,buffer,buflen,s);
+
+	if (IS_ERR(s))
+		return PTR_ERR(s);
+
+	res = vfs_readlink(dentry, buffer, buflen, s);
 	if (page) {
 		kunmap(page);
 		page_cache_release(page);
 	}
+
 	return res;
 }
 
 void *page_follow_link_light(struct dentry *dentry, struct nameidata *nd)
 {
 	struct page *page = NULL;
-	nd_set_link(nd, page_getlink(dentry, &page));
+	char *name = page_getlink(dentry, &page);
+	if (IS_ERR(name))
+		return name;
+
+	nd_set_link(nd, name);
 	return page;
 }
 
Cheers,
Duane.

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