linux-kernel - [PATCH?] reiserfs: prevent panic: don't allow %-char in journal dev. name

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Date:   Wed, 4 Apr 2018 18:25:16 -0700
From:   Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
To:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, reiserfs-devel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@...e.com>, Jan Kara <jack@...e.com>,
        Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
        Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@...il.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        syzkaller-bugs@...glegroups.com,
        syzbot+6bd77b88c1977c03f584@...kaller.appspotmail.com
Subject: [PATCH?] reiserfs: prevent panic: don't allow %-char in journal dev.
 name

From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>

If the reiserfs mount option's journal name contains a '%' character,
it can lead to a WARN_ONCE() in lib/vsprintf.c::format_decode(),
saying: "Please remove unsupported %/ in format string."
That's OK until panic_on_warn is set, at which point it's dead, Jim.

To placate this situation, check the journal name string for a '%'
character and return an error if one is found. Also print a warning
(one that won't panic the kernel) about the invalid journal name (e.g.):

  reiserfs: journal device name is invalid: %/file0

(In this example, the caller app specified the journal device name as
"%/file0".)

Fixes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?id=0627d4551fdc39bf1ef5d82cd9eef587047f7718

Reported-by: syzbot+6bd77b88c1977c03f584@...kaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org # many kernel versions
Cc: reiserfs-devel@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@...e.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@...e.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
Cc: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@...il.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...uxfoundation.org>
---
 fs/reiserfs/super.c |   11 +++++++++++
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)

--- lnx-416.orig/fs/reiserfs/super.c
+++ lnx-416/fs/reiserfs/super.c
@@ -1239,6 +1239,8 @@ static int reiserfs_parse_options(struct
 		}
 
 		if (c == 'j') {
+			char *badfmt;	// jdev_name (arg) cannot contain '%'
+
 			if (arg && *arg && jdev_name) {
 				/* Hm, already assigned? */
 				if (*jdev_name) {
@@ -1248,6 +1250,15 @@ static int reiserfs_parse_options(struct
 							 "be %s", *jdev_name);
 					return 0;
 				}
+
+				badfmt = strchr(arg, '%');
+				if (badfmt) {
+					printk(KERN_WARNING "reiserfs: "
+						 "journal device name "
+						 "is invalid: %s",
+						 arg);
+					return 0;
+				}
 				*jdev_name = arg;
 			}
 		}