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Re: [PATCH] xfs: avoid null *src in memcpy call in xlog_write

To: Dave Chinner <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xfs: avoid null *src in memcpy call in xlog_write
From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2015 16:31:35 -0500
Cc: xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
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In-reply-to: <20151007212422.GS27164@dastard>
References: <56154967.70100@xxxxxxxxxx> <20151007212422.GS27164@dastard>
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On 10/7/15 4:24 PM, Dave Chinner wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 07, 2015 at 11:33:43AM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
>> The gcc undefined behavior sanitizer caught this; surely
>> any sane memcpy implementation will no-op if size == 0,
>> but behavior with a *src of NULL is technically undefined
>> (declared nonnull), so avoid it here.
>>
>> We are actually in this situation frequently via
>> xlog_commit_record(), because:
>>
>>         struct xfs_log_iovec reg = {
>>                 .i_addr = NULL,
>>                 .i_len = 0,
>>                 .i_type = XLOG_REG_TYPE_COMMIT,
>>         };
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>>
>> diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_log.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_log.c
>> index 4012523..8897fd1 100644
>> --- a/fs/xfs/xfs_log.c
>> +++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_log.c
>> @@ -2424,7 +2424,10 @@ xlog_write(
>>  
>>                      /* copy region */
>>                      ASSERT(copy_len >= 0);
>> -                    memcpy(ptr, reg->i_addr + copy_off, copy_len);
>> +                    ASSERT(reg->i_addr + copy_off > 0 || copy_len == 0);
>> +                    /* size == 0 is ok, but *src == NULL is undefined */
>> +                    if (reg->i_addr + copy_off)
>> +                            memcpy(ptr, reg->i_addr + copy_off, copy_len);
>>                      xlog_write_adv_cnt(&ptr, &len, &log_offset, copy_len);
> 
> The comment doesn't explain anything about why copylen might be zero
> or reg->i_addr might be null.  If copylen is zero, we should really
> skip the copy, not rely on some magic pointer arithmetic to tell us
> it's ok to copy...
> 
>                       /*
>                        * Copy region.
>                        *
>                        * Unmount records just log an opheader, so can have
>                        * empty payloads with no data region to copy. Hence we 
> only
>                        * copy the payload if the vector says it has data to 
> copy.
>                        */
>                       ASSERT(copy_len >= 0);
>                       if (copy_len > 0) {
>                               memcpy(ptr, reg->i_addr + copy_off, copy_len);
>                               xlog_write_adv_cnt(&ptr, &len, &log_offset, 
> copy_len);
>                       }

Yeah, I thought about that, why didn't I do it that way?  Maybe I was thinking
about *src still being NULL, but I guess in that case we'd find out that there's
a problem very quickly.

You may as well just commit that version w/ your S-O-B and my Reported-by.

-Eric

> Cheers,
> 
> Dave.
> 

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