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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2] ext4: Prevent stack overrun in ext4_file_open when recording last known mountpoint
On Fri, 30 Sep 2011, Darrick J. Wong wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 11:40:05AM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> > In ext4_file_open, the filesystem records the mountpoint of the first file that
> > is opened after mounting the filesystem. It does this by allocating a 64-byte
> > stack buffer, calling d_path() to grab the mount point through which this file
> > was accessed, and then memcpy()ing 64 bytes into the superblock's
> > s_last_mounted field, starting from the return value of d_path(), which is
> > stored as "cp". However, if cp > buf (which it frequently is since path
> > components are prepended starting at the end of buf) then we can end up copying
> > stack data into the superblock.
> >
> > Writing stack variables into the superblock doesn't sound like a great idea, so
> > use strlcpy instead. Andi Kleen suggested using strlcpy instead of strncpy.
>
> Ok, it's been a couple of weeks.... any thoughts, Ted?
>
> --D

Makes sense.

Reviewed-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com>

> >
> > Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@us.ibm.com>
> > ---
> >
> > fs/ext4/file.c | 4 ++--
> > 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/fs/ext4/file.c b/fs/ext4/file.c
> > index e4095e9..9781099 100644
> > --- a/fs/ext4/file.c
> > +++ b/fs/ext4/file.c
> > @@ -181,8 +181,8 @@ static int ext4_file_open(struct inode * inode, struct file * filp)
> > path.dentry = mnt->mnt_root;
> > cp = d_path(&path, buf, sizeof(buf));
> > if (!IS_ERR(cp)) {
> > - memcpy(sbi->s_es->s_last_mounted, cp,
> > - sizeof(sbi->s_es->s_last_mounted));
> > + strlcpy(sbi->s_es->s_last_mounted, cp,
> > + sizeof(sbi->s_es->s_last_mounted));
> > ext4_mark_super_dirty(sb);
> > }
> > }
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