linux-kernel - [01/68] NFSD: memory corruption due to writing beyond the stat array

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Message-Id: <20110228162405.780148249@clark.kroah.org>
Date:	Mon, 28 Feb 2011 08:22:22 -0800
From:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...nel.org
Cc:	stable-review@...nel.org, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk,
	Konstantin Khorenko <khorenko@...nvz.org>,
	"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@...hat.com>
Subject: [01/68] NFSD: memory corruption due to writing beyond the stat array

2.6.32-longterm review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let us know.

------------------

From: Konstantin Khorenko <khorenko@...allels.com>

commit 3aa6e0aa8ab3e64bbfba092c64d42fd1d006b124 upstream.

If nfsd fails to find an exported via NFS file in the readahead cache, it
should increment corresponding nfsdstats counter (ra_depth[10]), but due to a
bug it may instead write to ra_depth[11], corrupting the following field.

In a kernel with NFSDv4 compiled in the corruption takes the form of an
increment of a counter of the number of NFSv4 operation 0's received; since
there is no operation 0, this is harmless.

In a kernel with NFSDv4 disabled it corrupts whatever happens to be in the
memory beyond nfsdstats.

Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khorenko <khorenko@...nvz.org>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@...hat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>

---
 fs/nfsd/vfs.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/fs/nfsd/vfs.c
+++ b/fs/nfsd/vfs.c
@@ -823,7 +823,7 @@ nfsd_get_raparms(dev_t dev, ino_t ino)
 		if (ra->p_count == 0)
 			frap = rap;
 	}
-	depth = nfsdstats.ra_size*11/10;
+	depth = nfsdstats.ra_size;
 	if (!frap) {	
 		spin_unlock(&rab->pb_lock);
 		return NULL;

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