Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 21 Jul 2006 16:24:15 +0200 | From | Jan Kara <> | Subject | Re: Bad ext3/nfs DoS bug |
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> On Thursday July 20, jack@suse.cz wrote: > > Yes, that looks fine too. I did not realize that we get the inode > > number only in a few places. Maybe we could wrap the checks in a > > function (possibly inline) so that the checks are just in one place? > > Like this? Yes.
> NeilBrown > > > Avoid triggering ext3_error on bad NFS file handle > > The inode number out of an NFS file handle gets passed > eventually to ext3_get_inode_block without any checking. > If ext3_get_inode_block allows it to trigger a error, > then bad filehandles can have unpleasant effect. > > So remove the call to ext3_error there and put a matching > check in ext3/namei.c where inode numbers are read of storage. > > Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Honza
> ### Diffstat output > ./fs/ext3/inode.c | 13 ++++++------- > ./fs/ext3/namei.c | 15 +++++++++++++-- > ./include/linux/ext3_fs.h | 9 +++++++++ > 3 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) > > diff .prev/fs/ext3/inode.c ./fs/ext3/inode.c > --- .prev/fs/ext3/inode.c 2006-07-20 14:41:07.000000000 +1000 > +++ ./fs/ext3/inode.c 2006-07-21 16:36:32.000000000 +1000 > @@ -2402,14 +2402,13 @@ static ext3_fsblk_t ext3_get_inode_block > struct buffer_head *bh; > struct ext3_group_desc * gdp; > > - > - if ((ino != EXT3_ROOT_INO && ino != EXT3_JOURNAL_INO && > - ino != EXT3_RESIZE_INO && ino < EXT3_FIRST_INO(sb)) || > - ino > le32_to_cpu(EXT3_SB(sb)->s_es->s_inodes_count)) { > - ext3_error(sb, "ext3_get_inode_block", > - "bad inode number: %lu", ino); > + if (!ext3_valid_inum(sb, ino)) > + /* This error already checked for in namei.c unless we > + * are looking at an NFS filehandle, in which case, > + * no error reported is needed > + */ > return 0; > - } > + > block_group = (ino - 1) / EXT3_INODES_PER_GROUP(sb); > if (block_group >= EXT3_SB(sb)->s_groups_count) { > ext3_error(sb,"ext3_get_inode_block","group >= groups count"); > > diff .prev/fs/ext3/namei.c ./fs/ext3/namei.c > --- .prev/fs/ext3/namei.c 2006-07-20 14:39:51.000000000 +1000 > +++ ./fs/ext3/namei.c 2006-07-21 16:36:09.000000000 +1000 > @@ -1000,7 +1000,12 @@ static struct dentry *ext3_lookup(struct > if (bh) { > unsigned long ino = le32_to_cpu(de->inode); > brelse (bh); > - inode = iget(dir->i_sb, ino); > + if (!ext3_valid_inum(dir->i_sb, ino)) { > + ext3_error(dir->i_sb, "ext3_lookup", > + "bad inode number: %lu", ino); > + inode = NULL; > + } else > + inode = iget(dir->i_sb, ino); > > if (!inode) > return ERR_PTR(-EACCES); > @@ -1028,7 +1033,13 @@ struct dentry *ext3_get_parent(struct de > return ERR_PTR(-ENOENT); > ino = le32_to_cpu(de->inode); > brelse(bh); > - inode = iget(child->d_inode->i_sb, ino); > + > + if (!ext3_valid_inum(child->d_inode->i_sb, ino)) { > + ext3_error(child->d_inode->i_sb, "ext3_get_parent", > + "bad inode number: %lu", ino); > + inode = NULL; > + } else > + inode = iget(child->d_inode->i_sb, ino); > > if (!inode) > return ERR_PTR(-EACCES); > > diff .prev/include/linux/ext3_fs.h ./include/linux/ext3_fs.h > --- .prev/include/linux/ext3_fs.h 2006-07-21 16:34:01.000000000 +1000 > +++ ./include/linux/ext3_fs.h 2006-07-21 16:35:55.000000000 +1000 > @@ -492,6 +492,15 @@ static inline struct ext3_inode_info *EX > { > return container_of(inode, struct ext3_inode_info, vfs_inode); > } > + > +static inline int ext3_valid_inum(struct super_block *sb, unsigned long ino) > +{ > + return ino == EXT3_ROOT_INO || > + ino == EXT3_JOURNAL_INO || > + ino == EXT3_RESIZE_INO || > + (ino > EXT3_FIRST_INO(sb) && > + ino <= le32_to_cpu(EXT3_SB(sb)->s_es->s_inodes_count)); > +} > #else > /* Assume that user mode programs are passing in an ext3fs superblock, not > * a kernel struct super_block. This will allow us to call the feature-test -- Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> SuSE CR Labs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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