linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] cifs: fix strcat buffer overflow and reduce raciness in smb21_set_oplock

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Date:   Wed, 8 May 2019 16:23:42 +0800
From:   Kai-Heng Feng <kai.heng.feng@...onical.com>
To:     Pavel Shilovsky <piastryyy@...il.com>
Cc:     Steve French <smfrench@...il.com>,
        Christoph Probst <kernel@...bst.it>,
        Steve French <sfrench@...ba.org>,
        CIFS <linux-cifs@...r.kernel.org>,
        samba-technical <samba-technical@...ts.samba.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] cifs: fix strcat buffer overflow and reduce raciness
 in smb21_set_oplock_level()

at 02:28, Pavel Shilovsky <piastryyy@...il.com> wrote:

> вт, 7 мая 2019 г. в 09:13, Steve French via samba-technical
> <samba-technical@...ts.samba.org>:
>> merged into cifs-2.6.git for-next
>>
>> On Tue, May 7, 2019 at 10:17 AM Christoph Probst via samba-technical
>> <samba-technical@...ts.samba.org> wrote:
>>> Change strcat to strncpy in the "None" case to fix a buffer overflow
>>> when cinode->oplock is reset to 0 by another thread accessing the same
>>> cinode. It is never valid to append "None" to any other message.
>>>
>>> Consolidate multiple writes to cinode->oplock to reduce raciness.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Christoph Probst <kernel@...bst.it>
>>> ---
>>>  fs/cifs/smb2ops.c | 14 ++++++++------
>>>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/fs/cifs/smb2ops.c b/fs/cifs/smb2ops.c
>>> index c36ff0d..aa61dcf 100644
>>> --- a/fs/cifs/smb2ops.c
>>> +++ b/fs/cifs/smb2ops.c
>>> @@ -2917,26 +2917,28 @@ smb21_set_oplock_level(struct cifsInodeInfo  
>>> *cinode, __u32 oplock,
>>>                        unsigned int epoch, bool *purge_cache)
>>>  {
>>>         char message[5] = {0};
>>> +       unsigned int new_oplock = 0;
>>>
>>>         oplock &= 0xFF;
>>>         if (oplock == SMB2_OPLOCK_LEVEL_NOCHANGE)
>>>                 return;
>>>
>>> -       cinode->oplock = 0;
>>>         if (oplock & SMB2_LEASE_READ_CACHING_HE) {
>>> -               cinode->oplock |= CIFS_CACHE_READ_FLG;
>>> +               new_oplock |= CIFS_CACHE_READ_FLG;
>>>                 strcat(message, "R");
>>>         }
>>>         if (oplock & SMB2_LEASE_HANDLE_CACHING_HE) {
>>> -               cinode->oplock |= CIFS_CACHE_HANDLE_FLG;
>>> +               new_oplock |= CIFS_CACHE_HANDLE_FLG;
>>>                 strcat(message, "H");
>>>         }
>>>         if (oplock & SMB2_LEASE_WRITE_CACHING_HE) {
>>> -               cinode->oplock |= CIFS_CACHE_WRITE_FLG;
>>> +               new_oplock |= CIFS_CACHE_WRITE_FLG;
>>>                 strcat(message, "W");
>>>         }
>>> -       if (!cinode->oplock)
>>> -               strcat(message, "None");
>>> +       if (!new_oplock)
>>> +               strncpy(message, "None", sizeof(message));
>>> +
>>> +       cinode->oplock = new_oplock;
>>>         cifs_dbg(FYI, "%s Lease granted on inode %p\n", message,
>>>                  &cinode->vfs_inode);
>>>  }
>>> --
>>> 2.1.4
>

Doesn’t the race still happen, but implicitly here?
cinode->oplock = new_oplock;

Is it possible to just introduce a lock to force its proper ordering?
e.g.

diff --git a/fs/cifs/cifsfs.c b/fs/cifs/cifsfs.c
index bf5b8264e119..a3c3c6156d17 100644
--- a/fs/cifs/cifsfs.c
+++ b/fs/cifs/cifsfs.c
@@ -267,6 +267,7 @@ cifs_alloc_inode(struct super_block *sb)
          * server, can not assume caching of file data or metadata.
          */
         cifs_set_oplock_level(cifs_inode, 0);
+       mutex_init(&cifs_inode->oplock_mutex);
         cifs_inode->flags = 0;
         spin_lock_init(&cifs_inode->writers_lock);
         cifs_inode->writers = 0;
diff --git a/fs/cifs/cifsglob.h b/fs/cifs/cifsglob.h
index 37b5ddf27ff1..6dfd4ab16c4f 100644
--- a/fs/cifs/cifsglob.h
+++ b/fs/cifs/cifsglob.h
@@ -1214,6 +1214,7 @@ struct cifsInodeInfo {
         struct list_head openFileList;
         __u32 cifsAttrs; /* e.g. DOS archive bit, sparse, compressed, system */
         unsigned int oplock;            /* oplock/lease level we have */
+       struct mutex oplock_mutex;
         unsigned int epoch;             /* used to track lease state changes */
  #define CIFS_INODE_PENDING_OPLOCK_BREAK   (0) /* oplock break in progress */
  #define CIFS_INODE_PENDING_WRITERS       (1) /* Writes in progress */
diff --git a/fs/cifs/smb2ops.c b/fs/cifs/smb2ops.c
index b20063cf774f..796b23712e71 100644
--- a/fs/cifs/smb2ops.c
+++ b/fs/cifs/smb2ops.c
@@ -1901,6 +1901,7 @@ smb21_set_oplock_level(struct cifsInodeInfo *cinode,  
__u32 oplock,
         if (oplock == SMB2_OPLOCK_LEVEL_NOCHANGE)
                 return;
 
+       mutex_lock(&cinode->oplock_mutex);
         cinode->oplock = 0;
         if (oplock & SMB2_LEASE_READ_CACHING_HE) {
                 cinode->oplock |= CIFS_CACHE_READ_FLG;
@@ -1916,6 +1917,8 @@ smb21_set_oplock_level(struct cifsInodeInfo *cinode,  
__u32 oplock,
         }
         if (!cinode->oplock)
                 strcat(message, "None");
+       mutex_unlock(&cinode->oplock_mutex);
+
         cifs_dbg(FYI, "%s Lease granted on inode %p\n", message,
                  &cinode->vfs_inode);
  }

Kai-Heng

> Thanks for cleaning it up!
>
> Reviewed-by: Pavel Shilovsky <pshilov@...rosoft.com>
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Pavel Shilovsky