linux-kernel - [PATCH] NFSD: memory corruption due to writing beyond the stat array

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Date:	Tue, 01 Feb 2011 17:16:29 +0300
From:	Konstantin Khorenko <khorenko@...allels.com>
To:	"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@...ldses.org>,
	Neil Brown <neilb@...e.de>
CC:	linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] NFSD: memory corruption due to writing beyond the stat array

Hi All,

i've found a bug which makes NFSD to corrupt memory due to writing beyond the stat array.

Initially this issue was found on 2.6.18-x RHEL5 kernel, but the same seems to be true for the current mainstream kernel (checked on 2.6.38-rc3).

./fs/nfsd/vfs.c:
static inline struct raparms *
nfsd_get_raparms(dev_t dev, ino_t ino)
{
...
       // here we searched our file in a readahead cache
       // but not found it
...
         depth = nfsdstats.ra_size*11/10;
...
       // some stuff, but "depth" is not changed
...
         nfsdstats.ra_depth[depth*10/nfsdstats.ra_size]++;
...
}

And here we write to the 12th array element
(nfsdstats.ra_size*11/10*10/nfsdstats.ra_size == 11), while ra_depth has only
11 elements:

struct nfsd_stats {
...
        unsigned int    ra_depth[11];   /* number of times ra entry was found that deep
                                         * in the cache (10percentiles). [10] = not found */
#ifdef CONFIG_NFSD_V4
        unsigned int    nfs4_opcount[LAST_NFS4_OP + 1]; /* count of individual
nfsv4 operations */
#endif
};

This means that each time we did not find a file in a readahead cache we
corrupt memory. Fortunately in a kernel with NFSDv4 compiled in it corrupts
(inc) NFS4 ops counter, but in a kernel with NFSDv4 disabled it corrupts (inc)
some other data, that lays in the memory beyond nfsdstats.

Proposed fix is attached.

--
Best regards,

Konstantin Khorenko

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