Skip to content

Commit

Permalink
xfs: zero proper structure size for geometry calls
Browse files Browse the repository at this point in the history
commit af24ee9 upstream.

Commit 493f335 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-rc6-493f3358cb2+ coolya#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: Jeffrey Hundstad <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Eric Sandeen <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Jeffrey Hundstad <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
  • Loading branch information
Alex Elder authored and Andi Kleen committed Apr 28, 2011
1 parent 33b1b26 commit c797893
Showing 1 changed file with 8 additions and 3 deletions.
11 changes: 8 additions & 3 deletions fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_ioctl.c
Original file line number Diff line number Diff line change
Expand Up @@ -703,14 +703,19 @@ xfs_ioc_fsgeometry_v1(
xfs_mount_t *mp,
void __user *arg)
{
xfs_fsop_geom_v1_t fsgeo;
xfs_fsop_geom_t fsgeo;
int error;

error = xfs_fs_geometry(mp, (xfs_fsop_geom_t *)&fsgeo, 3);
error = xfs_fs_geometry(mp, &fsgeo, 3);
if (error)
return -error;

if (copy_to_user(arg, &fsgeo, sizeof(fsgeo)))
/*
* Caller should have passed an argument of type
* xfs_fsop_geom_v1_t. This is a proper subset of the
* xfs_fsop_geom_t that xfs_fs_geometry() fills in.
*/
if (copy_to_user(arg, &fsgeo, sizeof(xfs_fsop_geom_v1_t)))
return -XFS_ERROR(EFAULT);
return 0;
}
Expand Down

0 comments on commit c797893

Please sign in to comment.