xfs: prevent kernel crash due to corrupted inode log format

Eric Sandeen sandeen at sandeen.net
Tue Mar 3 10:28:37 CST 2009


Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Andras Korn reported an oops on log replay causes by a corrupted
> xfs_inode_log_format_t passing a 0 size to kmem_zalloc.  This patch handles
> to small or too large numbers of log regions gracefully by rejecting the
> log replay with a useful error message.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch at lst.de>
> Reported-by: Andras Korn <korn-sgi.com at chardonnay.math.bme.hu>

Reviewed-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen at sandeen.net>

> Index: xfs/fs/xfs/xfs_log_recover.c
> ===================================================================
> --- xfs.orig/fs/xfs/xfs_log_recover.c	2009-02-12 19:00:29.056944584 +0100
> +++ xfs/fs/xfs/xfs_log_recover.c	2009-02-15 20:07:56.568971792 +0100
> @@ -1455,10 +1455,19 @@ xlog_recover_add_to_trans(
>  	item = item->ri_prev;
>  
>  	if (item->ri_total == 0) {		/* first region to be added */
> -		item->ri_total	= in_f->ilf_size;
> -		ASSERT(item->ri_total <= XLOG_MAX_REGIONS_IN_ITEM);
> -		item->ri_buf = kmem_zalloc((item->ri_total *
> -					    sizeof(xfs_log_iovec_t)), KM_SLEEP);
> +		if (in_f->ilf_size == 0 ||
> +		    in_f->ilf_size > XLOG_MAX_REGIONS_IN_ITEM) {
> +			xlog_warn(
> +	"XFS: bad number of regions (%d) in inode log format",
> +				  in_f->ilf_size);
> +			ASSERT(0);
> +			return XFS_ERROR(EIO);
> +		}
> +
> +		item->ri_total = in_f->ilf_size;
> +		item->ri_buf =
> +			kmem_zalloc(item->ri_total * sizeof(xfs_log_iovec_t),
> +				    KM_SLEEP);
>  	}
>  	ASSERT(item->ri_total > item->ri_cnt);
>  	/* Description region is ri_buf[0] */
> 
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