[PATCH] xfs: fix possible overflow in xfs_ioc_trim()

Lukas Czerner lczerner at redhat.com
Wed Sep 7 10:06:28 CDT 2011


On Wed, 7 Sep 2011, Chandra Seetharaman wrote:

> On Mon, 2011-09-05 at 16:33 +0200, Lukas Czerner wrote:
> > In xfs_ioc_trim it is possible that start+len might overflow. Fix it by
> > decrementing the len so that start+len equals to the file system size in
> > the worst case.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner at redhat.com>
> > ---
> >  fs/xfs/xfs_discard.c |    4 +++-
> >  1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_discard.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_discard.c
> > index 244e797..0fab107 100644
> > --- a/fs/xfs/xfs_discard.c
> > +++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_discard.c
> > @@ -146,6 +146,7 @@ xfs_ioc_trim(
> >  	unsigned int		granularity = q->limits.discard_granularity;
> >  	struct fstrim_range	range;
> >  	xfs_fsblock_t		start, len, minlen;
> > +	xfs_fsblock_t		max_blks =  XFS_MAX_DBLOCKS(&(mp->m_sb));
> >  	xfs_agnumber_t		start_agno, end_agno, agno;
> >  	__uint64_t		blocks_trimmed = 0;
> >  	int			error, last_error = 0;
> > @@ -171,7 +172,8 @@ xfs_ioc_trim(
> >  	start_agno = XFS_FSB_TO_AGNO(mp, start);
> >  	if (start_agno >= mp->m_sb.sb_agcount)
> >  		return -XFS_ERROR(EINVAL);
> > -
> > +	if (len > max_blks)
> 
> just wondering....
> 
> shouldn't this be ((start + len) > max_blks) ?

Yes the patch is not correct. See

http://www.spinics.net/lists/xfs/msg06897.html

> 
> > +		len = max_blks - start;
> >  	end_agno = XFS_FSB_TO_AGNO(mp, start + len);
> >  	if (end_agno >= mp->m_sb.sb_agcount)
> >  		end_agno = mp->m_sb.sb_agcount - 1;
> 
> 
> 




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