linux-kernel - Re: fs: out of bounds on stack in iov_iter

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Date:	Fri, 6 Nov 2015 02:19:00 +0000
From:	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
To:	Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@...cle.com>
Cc:	Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@...il.com>, willy@...ux.intel.com,
	Chuck Ebbert <cebbert.lkml@...il.com>,
	linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
Subject: Re: fs: out of bounds on stack in iov_iter_advance

On Fri, Nov 06, 2015 at 01:34:02AM +0000, Al Viro wrote:

> Could you try to reproduce it with this:
> 
> dax_io(): don't let non-error value escape via retval instead of EFAULT
> 
> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
> ---
> diff --git a/fs/dax.c b/fs/dax.c
> index a86d3cc..7b653e9 100644
> --- a/fs/dax.c
> +++ b/fs/dax.c
> @@ -169,8 +169,10 @@ static ssize_t dax_io(struct inode *inode, struct iov_iter *iter,
>  		else
>  			len = iov_iter_zero(max - pos, iter);
>  
> -		if (!len)
> +		if (!len) {
> +			retval = -EFAULT;
>  			break;
> +		}
>  
>  		pos += len;
>  		addr += len;
> 

PS: "block, dax: fix lifetime of in-kernel dax mappings with dax_map_atomic()"
Dan Williams had posted a while ago does change the things a bit, but
AFAICS only in turning "return a bogus positive value" into "return an
uninitialized value"; if applying that one after it, s/retval/rc/ in
the above.  And whether it fixes the bug Sasha had been able to trigger,
the bug is real and needs fixing - it's been there since 4.0 when fs/dax.c
went into the tree.

How are we going to handle that one?  I can put it into mainline pull
request via vfs.git, with Cc: stable, but if e.g. Jens prefers to take it
via the block tree, I'll be glad to leave it for him to deal with.
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