SUNRPC: Prevent kernel stack corruption on long values of flush
authorSasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>
Mon, 16 Jul 2012 22:01:26 +0000 (00:01 +0200)
committerJ. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>
Wed, 17 Oct 2012 18:59:10 +0000 (14:59 -0400)
The buffer size in read_flush() is too small for the longest possible values
for it. This can lead to a kernel stack corruption:

[   43.047329] Kernel panic - not syncing: stack-protector: Kernel stack is corrupted in: ffffffff833e64b4
[   43.047329]
[   43.049030] Pid: 6015, comm: trinity-child18 Tainted: G        W    3.5.0-rc7-next-20120716-sasha #221
[   43.050038] Call Trace:
[   43.050435]  [<ffffffff836c60c2>] panic+0xcd/0x1f4
[   43.050931]  [<ffffffff833e64b4>] ? read_flush.isra.7+0xe4/0x100
[   43.051602]  [<ffffffff810e94e6>] __stack_chk_fail+0x16/0x20
[   43.052206]  [<ffffffff833e64b4>] read_flush.isra.7+0xe4/0x100
[   43.052951]  [<ffffffff833e6500>] ? read_flush_pipefs+0x30/0x30
[   43.053594]  [<ffffffff833e652c>] read_flush_procfs+0x2c/0x30
[   43.053596]  [<ffffffff812b9a8c>] proc_reg_read+0x9c/0xd0
[   43.053596]  [<ffffffff812b99f0>] ? proc_reg_write+0xd0/0xd0
[   43.053596]  [<ffffffff81250d5b>] do_loop_readv_writev+0x4b/0x90
[   43.053596]  [<ffffffff81250fd6>] do_readv_writev+0xf6/0x1d0
[   43.053596]  [<ffffffff812510ee>] vfs_readv+0x3e/0x60
[   43.053596]  [<ffffffff812511b8>] sys_readv+0x48/0xb0
[   43.053596]  [<ffffffff8378167d>] system_call_fastpath+0x1a/0x1f

Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>
net/sunrpc/cache.c

index 2a68bb3..fc2f7aa 100644 (file)
@@ -1409,11 +1409,11 @@ static ssize_t read_flush(struct file *file, char __user *buf,
                          size_t count, loff_t *ppos,
                          struct cache_detail *cd)
 {
-       char tbuf[20];
+       char tbuf[22];
        unsigned long p = *ppos;
        size_t len;
 
-       sprintf(tbuf, "%lu\n", convert_to_wallclock(cd->flush_time));
+       snprintf(tbuf, sizeof(tbuf), "%lu\n", convert_to_wallclock(cd->flush_time));
        len = strlen(tbuf);
        if (p >= len)
                return 0;