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Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2012 11:49:17 +0200
From: Jim Meyering <jim@...ering.net>
To: Josef Bacik <josef@...hat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Btrfs: avoid buffer overrun in mount option handling
Josef Bacik wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 09:51:53PM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote:
>> There is an off-by-one error: allocating room for a maximal result
>> string but without room for a trailing NUL. That, can lead to
>> returning a transformed string that is not NUL-terminated, and then
>> to a caller reading beyond end of the malloc'd buffer.
>>
>> Worse still, we could write one non-NUL byte beyond the end of that
>> malloc'd result buffer when given a mount option of "subvol=," (i.e.,
>> no arg after the "=") because here the replacement "subvolid=0" is 3
>> bytes longer, not just 2.
>
> So this can't happen, since it would be caught by btrfs_parse_early_options
> which expects subvolid=%d, and if it doesn't get that it would just error out,
> so while adding another byte isn't bad, it's not correct either, so fix that and
> I'd say it's good to go. Thanks,
Hi Josef,
Thanks for the quick review.
Here's the incremental change, then the full revised commit:
diff --git a/fs/btrfs/super.c b/fs/btrfs/super.c
index eca8dea..5ddf172 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/super.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/super.c
@@ -926,15 +926,15 @@ static inline int is_subvolume_inode(struct inode *inode)
*/
static char *setup_root_args(char *args)
{
- unsigned len = strlen(args) + 3 + 1;
+ unsigned len = strlen(args) + 2 + 1;
char *src, *dst, *buf;
/*
* We need the same args as before, but with this substitution:
- * s!subvol=[^,]*!subvolid=0!
+ * s!subvol=[^,]+!subvolid=0!
*
- * Since the replacement string is up to 3 bytes longer than the
- * original, allocate strlen(args) + 3 + 1 bytes.
+ * Since the replacement string is up to 2 bytes longer than the
+ * original, allocate strlen(args) + 2 + 1 bytes.
*/
src = strstr(args, "subvol=");
>From 312b051535dea0fb208a7dcbe6ac6f30d948825e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jim Meyering <meyering@...hat.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2012 21:24:17 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Btrfs: avoid buffer overrun in mount option handling
There is an off-by-one error: allocating room for a maximal result
string but without room for a trailing NUL. That, can lead to
returning a transformed string that is not NUL-terminated, and
then to a caller reading beyond end of the malloc'd buffer.
Rewrite to s/kzalloc/kmalloc/, remove unwarranted use of strncpy
(the result is guaranteed to fit), remove dead strlen at end, and
change a few variable names and comments.
Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik <josef@...hat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jim Meyering <meyering@...hat.com>
---
fs/btrfs/super.c | 67 +++++++++++++++++++++---------------------------------
1 file changed, 26 insertions(+), 41 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/btrfs/super.c b/fs/btrfs/super.c
index 8d5d380..5ddf172 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/super.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/super.c
@@ -926,63 +926,48 @@ static inline int is_subvolume_inode(struct inode *inode)
*/
static char *setup_root_args(char *args)
{
- unsigned copied = 0;
- unsigned len = strlen(args) + 2;
- char *pos;
- char *ret;
+ unsigned len = strlen(args) + 2 + 1;
+ char *src, *dst, *buf;
/*
- * We need the same args as before, but minus
+ * We need the same args as before, but with this substitution:
+ * s!subvol=[^,]+!subvolid=0!
*
- * subvol=a
- *
- * and add
- *
- * subvolid=0
- *
- * which is a difference of 2 characters, so we allocate strlen(args) +
- * 2 characters.
+ * Since the replacement string is up to 2 bytes longer than the
+ * original, allocate strlen(args) + 2 + 1 bytes.
*/
- ret = kzalloc(len * sizeof(char), GFP_NOFS);
- if (!ret)
- return NULL;
- pos = strstr(args, "subvol=");
+ src = strstr(args, "subvol=");
/* This shouldn't happen, but just in case.. */
- if (!pos) {
- kfree(ret);
+ if (!src)
+ return NULL;
+
+ buf = dst = kmalloc(len, GFP_NOFS);
+ if (!buf)
return NULL;
- }
/*
- * The subvol=<> arg is not at the front of the string, copy everybody
- * up to that into ret.
+ * If the subvol= arg is not at the start of the string,
+ * copy whatever precedes it into buf.
*/
- if (pos != args) {
- *pos = '\0';
- strcpy(ret, args);
- copied += strlen(args);
- pos++;
+ if (src != args) {
+ *src++ = '\0';
+ strcpy(buf, args);
+ dst += strlen(args);
}
- strncpy(ret + copied, "subvolid=0", len - copied);
-
- /* Length of subvolid=0 */
- copied += 10;
+ strcpy(dst, "subvolid=0");
+ dst += strlen("subvolid=0");
/*
- * If there is no , after the subvol= option then we know there's no
- * other options and we can just return.
+ * If there is a "," after the original subvol=... string,
+ * copy that suffix into our buffer. Otherwise, we're done.
*/
- pos = strchr(pos, ',');
- if (!pos)
- return ret;
+ src = strchr(src, ',');
+ if (src)
+ strcpy(dst, src);
- /* Copy the rest of the arguments into our buffer */
- strncpy(ret + copied, pos, len - copied);
- copied += strlen(pos);
-
- return ret;
+ return buf;
}
static struct dentry *mount_subvol(const char *subvol_name, int flags,
--
1.7.10.335.g879d8
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