[3.13.y-ckt stable] Patch "nilfs2: fix potential memory overrun on inode" has been added to staging queue

Kamal Mostafa kamal at canonical.com
Tue Mar 31 18:47:01 UTC 2015


This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    nilfs2: fix potential memory overrun on inode

to the linux-3.13.y-queue branch of the 3.13.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.13.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.13.11-ckt18.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.13.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From 3e7a11302c77b1466e0d23b1daaedfbb5a077a39 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke at lab.ntt.co.jp>
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2015 15:51:56 -0800
Subject: nilfs2: fix potential memory overrun on inode

commit 957ed60b53b519064a54988c4e31e0087e47d091 upstream.

Each inode of nilfs2 stores a root node of a b-tree, and it turned out to
have a memory overrun issue:

Each b-tree node of nilfs2 stores a set of key-value pairs and the number
of them (in "bn_nchildren" member of nilfs_btree_node struct), as well as
a few other "bn_*" members.

Since the value of "bn_nchildren" is used for operations on the key-values
within the b-tree node, it can cause memory access overrun if a large
number is incorrectly set to "bn_nchildren".

For instance, nilfs_btree_node_lookup() function determines the range of
binary search with it, and too large "bn_nchildren" leads
nilfs_btree_node_get_key() in that function to overrun.

As for intermediate b-tree nodes, this is prevented by a sanity check
performed when each node is read from a drive, however, no sanity check
has been done for root nodes stored in inodes.

This patch fixes the issue by adding missing sanity check against b-tree
root nodes so that it's called when on-memory inodes are read from ifile,
inode metadata file.

Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke at lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm at linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds at linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 fs/nilfs2/btree.c | 47 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 44 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/nilfs2/btree.c b/fs/nilfs2/btree.c
index b2e3ff3..ecdbae1 100644
--- a/fs/nilfs2/btree.c
+++ b/fs/nilfs2/btree.c
@@ -31,6 +31,8 @@
 #include "alloc.h"
 #include "dat.h"

+static void __nilfs_btree_init(struct nilfs_bmap *bmap);
+
 static struct nilfs_btree_path *nilfs_btree_alloc_path(void)
 {
 	struct nilfs_btree_path *path;
@@ -368,6 +370,34 @@ static int nilfs_btree_node_broken(const struct nilfs_btree_node *node,
 	return ret;
 }

+/**
+ * nilfs_btree_root_broken - verify consistency of btree root node
+ * @node: btree root node to be examined
+ * @ino: inode number
+ *
+ * Return Value: If node is broken, 1 is returned. Otherwise, 0 is returned.
+ */
+static int nilfs_btree_root_broken(const struct nilfs_btree_node *node,
+				   unsigned long ino)
+{
+	int level, flags, nchildren;
+	int ret = 0;
+
+	level = nilfs_btree_node_get_level(node);
+	flags = nilfs_btree_node_get_flags(node);
+	nchildren = nilfs_btree_node_get_nchildren(node);
+
+	if (unlikely(level < NILFS_BTREE_LEVEL_NODE_MIN ||
+		     level > NILFS_BTREE_LEVEL_MAX ||
+		     nchildren < 0 ||
+		     nchildren > NILFS_BTREE_ROOT_NCHILDREN_MAX)) {
+		pr_crit("NILFS: bad btree root (inode number=%lu): level = %d, flags = 0x%x, nchildren = %d\n",
+			ino, level, flags, nchildren);
+		ret = 1;
+	}
+	return ret;
+}
+
 int nilfs_btree_broken_node_block(struct buffer_head *bh)
 {
 	int ret;
@@ -1713,7 +1743,7 @@ nilfs_btree_commit_convert_and_insert(struct nilfs_bmap *btree,

 	/* convert and insert */
 	dat = NILFS_BMAP_USE_VBN(btree) ? nilfs_bmap_get_dat(btree) : NULL;
-	nilfs_btree_init(btree);
+	__nilfs_btree_init(btree);
 	if (nreq != NULL) {
 		nilfs_bmap_commit_alloc_ptr(btree, dreq, dat);
 		nilfs_bmap_commit_alloc_ptr(btree, nreq, dat);
@@ -2294,12 +2324,23 @@ static const struct nilfs_bmap_operations nilfs_btree_ops_gc = {
 	.bop_gather_data	=	NULL,
 };

-int nilfs_btree_init(struct nilfs_bmap *bmap)
+static void __nilfs_btree_init(struct nilfs_bmap *bmap)
 {
 	bmap->b_ops = &nilfs_btree_ops;
 	bmap->b_nchildren_per_block =
 		NILFS_BTREE_NODE_NCHILDREN_MAX(nilfs_btree_node_size(bmap));
-	return 0;
+}
+
+int nilfs_btree_init(struct nilfs_bmap *bmap)
+{
+	int ret = 0;
+
+	__nilfs_btree_init(bmap);
+
+	if (nilfs_btree_root_broken(nilfs_btree_get_root(bmap),
+				    bmap->b_inode->i_ino))
+		ret = -EIO;
+	return ret;
 }

 void nilfs_btree_init_gc(struct nilfs_bmap *bmap)
--
1.9.1





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