netdev - Re: [PATCH] sunrpc: fix a missing check of xdr_inline

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Message-Id: <1C2E97C7-AA91-40E8-B42E-DA6A81CE4CAC@oracle.com>
Date:   Wed, 26 Dec 2018 12:35:20 -0500
From:   Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@...cle.com>
To:     Kangjie Lu <kjlu@....edu>
Cc:     pakki001@....edu, Bruce Fields <bfields@...ldses.org>,
        Jeff Layton <jlayton@...nel.org>,
        Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@...merspace.com>,
        Anna Schumaker <anna.schumaker@...app.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Linux NFS Mailing List <linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org>,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sunrpc: fix a missing check of xdr_inline_decode



> On Dec 25, 2018, at 10:18 PM, Kangjie Lu <kjlu@....edu> wrote:
> 
> xdr_inline_decode() could fail.

NAK: xdr_inline_decode cannot fail if its second argument is zero.


> When it fails, the return value is NULL
> and should not be dereferenced.
> The fix checks if xdr_inline_decode fails, and if so, returns.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kangjie Lu <kjlu@....edu>
> ---
> net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/backchannel.c | 2 ++
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/backchannel.c b/net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/backchannel.c
> index e5b367a3e517..bd9be5272ef4 100644
> --- a/net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/backchannel.c
> +++ b/net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/backchannel.c
> @@ -285,6 +285,8 @@ void rpcrdma_bc_receive_call(struct rpcrdma_xprt *r_xprt,
> 	__be32 *p;
> 
> 	p = xdr_inline_decode(&rep->rr_stream, 0);
> +	if (unlikely(!p))
> +		goto out_overflow;
> 	size = xdr_stream_remaining(&rep->rr_stream);
> 
> #ifdef RPCRDMA_BACKCHANNEL_DEBUG
> -- 
> 2.17.2 (Apple Git-113)
> 

--
Chuck Lever