NFSD: memory corruption due to writing beyond the stat array
authorKonstantin Khorenko <khorenko@parallels.com>
Tue, 1 Feb 2011 14:16:29 +0000 (17:16 +0300)
committerJ. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>
Mon, 14 Feb 2011 15:35:18 +0000 (10:35 -0500)
commit3aa6e0aa8ab3e64bbfba092c64d42fd1d006b124
treed86305c39f790e90c51f4095b26157053538d2a5
parent0af3f814ccf0a13d3e01e8115b96f1824379fc72
NFSD: memory corruption due to writing beyond the stat array

If nfsd fails to find an exported via NFS file in the readahead cache, it
should increment corresponding nfsdstats counter (ra_depth[10]), but due to a
bug it may instead write to ra_depth[11], corrupting the following field.

In a kernel with NFSDv4 compiled in the corruption takes the form of an
increment of a counter of the number of NFSv4 operation 0's received; since
there is no operation 0, this is harmless.

In a kernel with NFSDv4 disabled it corrupts whatever happens to be in the
memory beyond nfsdstats.

Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khorenko <khorenko@openvz.org>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>
fs/nfsd/vfs.c