>>>>> " " == Hai-Pao Fan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Problem:
> A returned address from kmalloc() can be overwritten to a wrong
> place in rpcauth_lookup_credcache() routine.
Ouch. This is a bug that's been with us since 2.1.x at least...
Linus, the problem is in fact twofold.
1) auth_null is not initializing cred->cr_uid as it is required to
do by the rpc_auth hashing scheme.
The latter should really have be rewritten: we don't actually
need hashing for auth_null, since there is nothing uid-specific
in the credential. (Appended to the TODO list for 2.5)
2) The hashing scheme itself uses the 'mod' a.k.a. '%' operation on
signed quantities. This means that offsets into the hash table
can turn negative...
The following patch should clear it up on 2.4.0. I'll send a separate
patch to Alan for inclusion into 2.2.18.
Cheers,
Trond
--- net/sunrpc/auth_null.c.orig Mon Mar 20 17:14:04 2000
+++ net/sunrpc/auth_null.c Fri Oct 13 09:44:02 2000
@@ -54,6 +54,7 @@
return NULL;
cred->cr_count = 0;
cred->cr_flags = RPCAUTH_CRED_UPTODATE;
+ cred->cr_uid = current->uid;
return cred;
}
--- net/sunrpc/auth.c.orig Sat May 13 18:43:55 2000
+++ net/sunrpc/auth.c Fri Oct 13 10:36:54 2000
@@ -159,7 +159,7 @@
{
int nr;
- nr = (cred->cr_uid % RPC_CREDCACHE_NR);
+ nr = (cred->cr_uid & RPC_CREDCACHE_MASK);
spin_lock(&rpc_credcache_lock);
cred->cr_next = auth->au_credcache[nr];
auth->au_credcache[nr] = cred;
@@ -178,7 +178,7 @@
int nr = 0;
if (!(taskflags & RPC_TASK_ROOTCREDS))
- nr = current->uid % RPC_CREDCACHE_NR;
+ nr = current->uid & RPC_CREDCACHE_MASK;
if (time_before(auth->au_nextgc, jiffies))
rpcauth_gc_credcache(auth);
@@ -218,7 +218,7 @@
struct rpc_cred **q, *cr;
int nr;
- nr = (cred->cr_uid % RPC_CREDCACHE_NR);
+ nr = (cred->cr_uid & RPC_CREDCACHE_MASK);
spin_lock(&rpc_credcache_lock);
q = &auth->au_credcache[nr];
while ((cr = *q) != NULL) {
--- include/linux/sunrpc/auth.h.orig Fri Oct 13 10:06:19 2000
+++ include/linux/sunrpc/auth.h Fri Oct 13 10:35:42 2000
@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@
* Client authentication handle
*/
#define RPC_CREDCACHE_NR 8
+#define RPC_CREDCACHE_MASK (RPC_CREDCACHE_NR - 1)
struct rpc_auth {
struct rpc_cred * au_credcache[RPC_CREDCACHE_NR];
unsigned long au_expire; /* cache expiry interval */
-
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