[PATCH v2] xfs: check for possible overflow in xfs_ioc_trim

Lukáš Czerner lczerner at redhat.com
Wed Aug 8 02:22:01 CDT 2012


On Wed, 1 Aug 2012, Tomas Racek wrote:

> Date: Wed,  1 Aug 2012 15:45:37 +0200
> From: Tomas Racek <tracek at redhat.com>
> To: linux-xfs at vger.kernel.org
> Cc: lczerner at redhat.com, Tomas Racek <tracek at redhat.com>,
>     Ben Myers <bpm at sgi.com>, Alex Elder <elder at kernel.org>,
>     "supporter:XFS FILESYSTEM" <xfs at oss.sgi.com>,
>     open list <linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org>
> Subject: [PATCH v2] xfs: check for possible overflow in xfs_ioc_trim
> 
> If range.start points behind the filesystem, return invalid value error.
> This fixes possible overflow in
> 
> start = BTOBB(range.start)
> 
> when range.start is nearly ULLONG_MAX.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tomas Racek <tracek at redhat.com>

The fix looks good to me, but I have one comment bellow.

> ---
>  fs/xfs/xfs_discard.c |    5 +++--
>  1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_discard.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_discard.c
> index f9c3fe3..33d367f 100644
> --- a/fs/xfs/xfs_discard.c
> +++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_discard.c
> @@ -179,12 +179,13 @@ xfs_ioc_trim(
>  	 * used by the fstrim application.  In the end it really doesn't
>  	 * matter as trimming blocks is an advisory interface.
>  	 */
> +	if (range.start >= XFS_FSB_TO_B(mp, mp->m_sb.sb_dblocks))
> +		return -XFS_ERROR(EINVAL);
> +
>  	start = BTOBB(range.start);
>  	end = start + BTOBBT(range.len) - 1;
>  	minlen = BTOBB(max_t(u64, granularity, range.minlen));

It seems that we have the same problem here with range.minlen. It
is highly unlikely and stupid from the user space to send minlen of
such size, but it is possible.

Thanks!
-Lukas

>  
> -	if (XFS_BB_TO_FSB(mp, start) >= mp->m_sb.sb_dblocks)
> -		return -XFS_ERROR(EINVAL);
>  	if (end > XFS_FSB_TO_BB(mp, mp->m_sb.sb_dblocks) - 1)
>  		end = XFS_FSB_TO_BB(mp, mp->m_sb.sb_dblocks)- 1;
>  
> 



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