Hi, Chen
On Mon, 20 Feb 2012 16:55:30 -0500, Haogang Chen wrote:
> ns_r_segments_percentage is read from the disk. Bogus or malicious
> value could cause integer overflow and potential security holes.
> This patch reports error when mounting such bogus volumes.
>
> Signed-off-by: Haogang Chen <[email protected]>
Ok, I will pick this up as a fix.
But this seems not to cause security issues; it just makes some disk
usage calculations meaningless and causes malfunction for such
out-of-range values. Right?
May I amend the change log in terms of the impact ?
Thanks,
Ryusuke Konishi
> ---
> fs/nilfs2/the_nilfs.c | 6 ++++++
> 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/nilfs2/the_nilfs.c b/fs/nilfs2/the_nilfs.c
> index d327140..e12b47b 100644
> --- a/fs/nilfs2/the_nilfs.c
> +++ b/fs/nilfs2/the_nilfs.c
> @@ -409,6 +409,12 @@ static int nilfs_store_disk_layout(struct the_nilfs
> *nilfs,
> nilfs->ns_first_data_block = le64_to_cpu(sbp->s_first_data_block);
> nilfs->ns_r_segments_percentage =
> le32_to_cpu(sbp->s_r_segments_percentage);
> + if (nilfs->ns_r_segments_percentage < 1 ||
> + nilfs->ns_r_segments_percentage > 99) {
> + printk(KERN_ERR "NILFS: invalid reserved segments
> percentage.\n");
> + return -EINVAL;
> + }
> +
> nilfs_set_nsegments(nilfs, le64_to_cpu(sbp->s_nsegments));
> nilfs->ns_crc_seed = le32_to_cpu(sbp->s_crc_seed);
> return 0;
> --
> 1.7.5.4
>
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