linux-ext4 - [PATCH] ext2: check xattr name_len before acquiring sem lock in ext2_xattr

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Fri, 22 Jul 2011 22:06:24 +0800
From:	Wang Sheng-Hui <shhuiw@...il.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>, "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
Subject: [PATCH] ext2: check xattr name_len before acquiring sem lock in ext2_xattr_get

>From 667173a18b671896f933c5952fa211601d2e5ab0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Wang Sheng-Hui <shhuiw@...il.com>
Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2011 08:50:13 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] ext2: check xattr name_len before acquiring sem lock in ext2_xattr_get

The patch is against 3.0.

In ext2_xattr_get, the code will acquire sem lock first, later check
the length of xattr name_len > 255. It's kind of time consuming, and
we should do the basic check before the time consuming acquiring sem
lock.

Signed-off-by: Wang Sheng-Hui <shhuiw@...il.com>
---
 fs/ext2/xattr.c |   10 +++++-----
 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/ext2/xattr.c b/fs/ext2/xattr.c
index 5299706..d27b71f 100644
--- a/fs/ext2/xattr.c
+++ b/fs/ext2/xattr.c
@@ -161,6 +161,10 @@ ext2_xattr_get(struct inode *inode, int name_index, const char *name,
 
 	if (name == NULL)
 		return -EINVAL;
+	name_len = strlen(name);
+	if (name_len > 255)
+		return -ERANGE;
+
 	down_read(&EXT2_I(inode)->xattr_sem);
 	error = -ENODATA;
 	if (!EXT2_I(inode)->i_file_acl)
@@ -181,12 +185,8 @@ bad_block:	ext2_error(inode->i_sb, "ext2_xattr_get",
 		error = -EIO;
 		goto cleanup;
 	}
-	/* find named attribute */
-	name_len = strlen(name);
 
-	error = -ERANGE;
-	if (name_len > 255)
-		goto cleanup;
+	/* find named attribute */
 	entry = FIRST_ENTRY(bh);
 	while (!IS_LAST_ENTRY(entry)) {
 		struct ext2_xattr_entry *next =
-- 
1.7.1

--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html