netdev - Re: bug report: libceph: follow redirect replies from osds

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Date:   Fri, 30 Aug 2019 16:26:33 +0200
From:   Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@...il.com>
To:     Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
Cc:     Jeff Layton <jlayton@...nel.org>, Sage Weil <sage@...hat.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Ceph Development <ceph-devel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: bug report: libceph: follow redirect replies from osds

On Fri, Aug 30, 2019 at 4:05 PM Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Static analysis with Coverity has picked up an issue with commit:
>
> commit 205ee1187a671c3b067d7f1e974903b44036f270
> Author: Ilya Dryomov <ilya.dryomov@...tank.com>
> Date:   Mon Jan 27 17:40:20 2014 +0200
>
>     libceph: follow redirect replies from osds
>
> Specifically in function ceph_redirect_decode in net/ceph/osd_client.c:
>
> 3485
> 3486        len = ceph_decode_32(p);
>
> CID 17904: Unused value (UNUSED_VALUE)
>
> 3487        *p += len; /* skip osd_instructions */
> 3488
> 3489        /* skip the rest */
> 3490        *p = struct_end;
>
> The double write to *p looks wrong, I suspect the *p += len; should be
> just incrementing pointer p as in: p += len.  Am I correct to assume
> this is the correct fix?

Hi Colin,

No, the double write to *p is correct.  It skips over len bytes and
then skips to the end of the redirect reply.  There is no bug here but
we could drop

  len = ceph_decode_32(p);
  *p += len; /* skip osd_instructions */

and skip to the end directly to make Coverity happier.

Thanks,

                Ilya