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Commit b602345d authored by NeilBrown's avatar NeilBrown Committed by J. Bruce Fields
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nfsd: fix memory corruption caused by readdir

If the result of an NFSv3 readdir{,plus} request results in the
"offset" on one entry having to be split across 2 pages, and is sized
so that the next directory entry doesn't fit in the requested size,
then memory corruption can happen.

When encode_entry() is called after encoding the last entry that fits,
it notices that ->offset and ->offset1 are set, and so stores the
offset value in the two pages as required.  It clears ->offset1 but
*does not* clear ->offset.

Normally this omission doesn't matter as encode_entry_baggage() will
be called, and will set ->offset to a suitable value (not on a page
boundary).
But in the case where cd->buflen < elen and nfserr_toosmall is
returned, ->offset is not reset.

This means that nfsd3proc_readdirplus will see ->offset with a value 4
bytes before the end of a page, and ->offset1 set to NULL.
It will try to write 8bytes to ->offset.
If we are lucky, the next page will be read-only, and the system will
  BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at...

If we are unlucky, some innocent page will have the first 4 bytes
corrupted.

nfsd3proc_readdir() doesn't even check for ->offset1, it just blindly
writes 8 bytes to the offset wherever it is.

Fix this by clearing ->offset after it is used, and copying the
->offset handling code from nfsd3_proc_readdirplus into
nfsd3_proc_readdir.

(Note that the commit hash in the Fixes tag is from the 'history'
 tree - this bug predates git).

Fixes: 0b1d57cf7654 ("[PATCH] kNFSd: Fix nfs3 dentry encoding")
Fixes-URL: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/history/history.git/commit/?id=0b1d57cf7654


Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org (v2.6.12+)
Signed-off-by: default avatarNeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJ. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>
parent c54f24e3
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