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Commit af24ee9e authored by Alex Elder's avatar Alex Elder
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xfs: zero proper structure size for geometry calls



Commit 493f3358 added this call to
xfs_fs_geometry() in order to avoid passing kernel stack data back
to user space:

+       memset(geo, 0, sizeof(*geo));

Unfortunately, one of the callers of that function passes the
address of a smaller data type, cast to fit the type that
xfs_fs_geometry() requires.  As a result, this can happen:

Kernel panic - not syncing: stack-protector: Kernel stack is corrupted
in: f87aca93

Pid: 262, comm: xfs_fsr Not tainted 2.6.38-rc6-493f3358+ #1
Call Trace:

[<c12991ac>] ? panic+0x50/0x150
[<c102ed71>] ? __stack_chk_fail+0x10/0x18
[<f87aca93>] ? xfs_ioc_fsgeometry_v1+0x56/0x5d [xfs]

Fix this by fixing that one caller to pass the right type and then
copy out the subset it is interested in.

Note: This patch is an alternative to one originally proposed by
Eric Sandeen.

Reported-by: default avatarJeffrey Hundstad <jeffrey.hundstad@mnsu.edu>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAlex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarEric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Tested-by: default avatarJeffrey Hundstad <jeffrey.hundstad@mnsu.edu>
parent dd9c1549
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