This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
xfs: zero proper structure size for geometry calls
to the 2.6.32-longterm tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/longterm/longterm-queue-2.6.32.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
xfs-zero-proper-structure-size-for-geometry-calls.patch
and it can be found in the queue-2.6.32 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the 2.6.32 longterm
tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.
>From af24ee9ea8d532e16883251a6684dfa1be8eec29 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alex Elder <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2011 17:50:00 +0000
Subject: xfs: zero proper structure size for geometry calls
From: Alex Elder <[email protected]>
commit af24ee9ea8d532e16883251a6684dfa1be8eec29 upstream.
Commit 493f3358cb289ccf716c5a14fa5bb52ab75943e5 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+ #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]>
Reviewed-by: Eric Sandeen <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Jeffrey Hundstad <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
diff --git a/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_ioctl.c b/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_ioctl.c
index f5e2a19..0ca0e3c 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_ioctl.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_ioctl.c
@@ -695,14 +695,19 @@ 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;
}
Patches currently in longterm-queue-2.6.32 which might be from [email protected]
are
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