netdev - Re: question about map_read

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Message-ID: <5245A2DE.9020307@opengridcomputing.com>
Date:	Fri, 27 Sep 2013 10:23:10 -0500
From:	Tom Tucker <tom@...ngridcomputing.com>
To:	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
CC:	Tom Tucker <tom@....us>, "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@...hat.com>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: question about map_read_chunks()

Hi Dan,

On 9/27/13 7:21 AM, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> I have looked at this again, and I still worry that it looks like a bug.
> (remote security related blah blah blah).
>
> regards,
> dan carpenter
>
> On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 12:50:19PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
>> I had a couple questions about some map_read_chunks().
>>
>> net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/svc_rdma_recvfrom.c
>>
>>     150          ch_bytes = ntohl(ch->rc_target.rs_length);
>>                  ^^^^^^^^
>> It look like this is 32 bits from the network?
>>
>>     151          head->arg.head[0] = rqstp->rq_arg.head[0];
>>     152          head->arg.tail[0] = rqstp->rq_arg.tail[0];
>>     153          head->arg.pages = &head->pages[head->count];
>>     154          head->hdr_count = head->count; /* save count of hdr pages */
>>     155          head->arg.page_base = 0;
>>     156          head->arg.page_len = ch_bytes;
>>     157          head->arg.len = rqstp->rq_arg.len + ch_bytes;
>>                                  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>> Can overflow.
>>     158          head->arg.buflen = rqstp->rq_arg.buflen + ch_bytes;
agreed.
>>                                     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>> Same.  I didn't follow it through to see if an overflow matters.  Does
>> it?
>>
>>     159          head->count++;
>>     160          chl_map->ch[0].start = 0;
>>     161          while (byte_count) {
>>     162                  rpl_map->sge[sge_no].iov_base =
>>     163                          page_address(rqstp->rq_arg.pages[page_no]) + page_off;
>>     164                  sge_bytes = min_t(int, PAGE_SIZE-page_off, ch_bytes);
>>                                            ^^^
>> This is the wrong cast to use.  A large ch_bytes would be counted as a
>> negative value and get around the cap here.
True, but if we validate the wire data like we should, that's probably 
not an issue.

>>     165                  rpl_map->sge[sge_no].iov_len = sge_bytes;
>>
>> regards,
>> dan carpenter
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