linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/4] [SMB3] Fix dereference before null check warning

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Date:	Wed, 1 Apr 2015 07:07:00 -0400
From:	Jeff Layton <jlayton@...ba.org>
To:	Steve French <smfrench@...il.com>
Cc:	"linux-cifs@...r.kernel.org" <linux-cifs@...r.kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] [SMB3] Fix dereference before null check warning

On Wed, 1 Apr 2015 00:00:57 -0500
Steve French <smfrench@...il.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 7:46 PM, Jeff Layton <jlayton@...chiereds.net> wrote:
> > On Fri, 27 Mar 2015 00:28:01 -0500
> > Steve French <smfrench@...il.com> wrote:
> >
> >> null tcon is not likely in these paths in current
> >> code, but obviously it does clarify the code to
> >> check for null (if at all) before derefrencing
> >> rather than after.
> >>
> >> Reported by Coverity (CID 1042666)
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Steve French <smfrench@...il.com>
> >
> > I don't get it. Under what circumstances would the tcon ever be NULL
> > here? If there aren't any then this is just confusing. It would be
> > better to just remove the bogus checks for a NULL tcon instead.
> 
> I don't think it really matters much one way or another but I agree it
> would be a bug to pass in a null tcon to SMB2_ioctl.
> 
> On the other hand ... if there are any paths where tcon might be null
> (other than SessionSetup and NegProt and TCon itself) due to bug,
> SMB2/SMB3 ioctl/fsctl would be the one since there are various strange
> operations (such as security related calls such as validate negotiate
> for example) that either call it now or will need to call it as
> additional SMB2/SMB3 ioctls are added.  I didn't see any harm in
> checking for null tcon, although clearly passing in a null tcon would
> be a bug - this is one code path where I don't mind checking since
> there are some counterintuitive things which SMB2 ioctl/fsctl protocol
> operations do.
> 

I guess my thinking was that an ioctl syscall requires that you have an
open file, and that requires a fully-established tcon with cifs.ko. So
I don't quite understand how you could get into SMB2_ioctl and not have
a valid tcon.

Bogus NULL pointer checks like this may seem harmless, but they tend to
lead toward the papering over of real bugs. My suggestion would be to
get rid of any pretense that passing in a NULL tcon is OK here.

> 
> >> ---
> >>  fs/cifs/smb2pdu.c | 13 ++++++++-----
> >>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/fs/cifs/smb2pdu.c b/fs/cifs/smb2pdu.c
> >> index 1b906de..78b329f 100644
> >> --- a/fs/cifs/smb2pdu.c
> >> +++ b/fs/cifs/smb2pdu.c
> >> @@ -1218,7 +1218,7 @@ SMB2_ioctl(const unsigned int xid, struct cifs_tcon *tcon, u64 persistent_fid,
> >>       struct smb2_ioctl_req *req;
> >>       struct smb2_ioctl_rsp *rsp;
> >>       struct TCP_Server_Info *server;
> >> -     struct cifs_ses *ses = tcon->ses;
> >> +     struct cifs_ses *ses;
> >>       struct kvec iov[2];
> >>       int resp_buftype;
> >>       int num_iovecs;
> >> @@ -1233,6 +1233,11 @@ SMB2_ioctl(const unsigned int xid, struct cifs_tcon *tcon, u64 persistent_fid,
> >>       if (plen)
> >>               *plen = 0;
> >>
> >> +     if (tcon)
> >> +             ses = tcon->ses;
> >> +     else
> >> +             return -EIO;
> >> +
> >>       if (ses && (ses->server))
> >>               server = ses->server;
> >>       else
> >> @@ -1296,14 +1301,12 @@ SMB2_ioctl(const unsigned int xid, struct cifs_tcon *tcon, u64 persistent_fid,
> >>       rsp = (struct smb2_ioctl_rsp *)iov[0].iov_base;
> >>
> >>       if ((rc != 0) && (rc != -EINVAL)) {
> >> -             if (tcon)
> >> -                     cifs_stats_fail_inc(tcon, SMB2_IOCTL_HE);
> >> +             cifs_stats_fail_inc(tcon, SMB2_IOCTL_HE);
> >>               goto ioctl_exit;
> >>       } else if (rc == -EINVAL) {
> >>               if ((opcode != FSCTL_SRV_COPYCHUNK_WRITE) &&
> >>                   (opcode != FSCTL_SRV_COPYCHUNK)) {
> >> -                     if (tcon)
> >> -                             cifs_stats_fail_inc(tcon, SMB2_IOCTL_HE);
> >> +                     cifs_stats_fail_inc(tcon, SMB2_IOCTL_HE);
> >>                       goto ioctl_exit;
> >>               }
> >>       }
> >
> >
> 
> 
> 


-- 
Jeff Layton <jlayton@...ba.org>
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