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SubjectRe: [OOPS] 3.0-rc1 cifs
On 06/10/2011 05:33 PM, Connor Hansen wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 4:37 AM, Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, 10 Jun 2011 02:57:21 +0200 (CEST)
>> Uffing <mp3project@sarijopen.student.utwente.nl> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> <snip>
>>>> call in get_dfs_path()
>>>> rc = CIFSTCon(xid, pSesInfo, temp_unc, NULL, nls_codepage);
>>>>
>>>> function header for CIFSTCon
>>>> int CIFSTCon(unsigned int xid, struct cifs_ses *ses,
>>>> const char *tree, struct cifs_tcon *tcon,
>>>> const struct nls_table *nls_codepage)
>>>>
>>>> get_dfs_path() is passing struct cifs_tcon *tcon as NULL
>>>>
>>>> from config: CONFIG_CIFS_WEAK_PW_HASH=y
>>>>
>>>> in CIFSTCon
>>>>
>>>> #ifdef CONFIG_CIFS_WEAK_PW_HASH
>>>> 3222 if ((global_secflags & CIFSSEC_MAY_LANMAN) &&
>>>> 3223 (ses->server->secType == LANMAN))
>>>> 3224 calc_lanman_hash(tcon->password,
>>>> ses->server->cryptkey,
>>>>
>>>> in calc_lanman_hash tcon is dereferenced(tcon->password) without being
>>>> checked if null
>>>>
>>>> 3225 ses->server->sec_mode &
>>>> 3226 SECMODE_PW_ENCRYPT ?
>>>> true : false,
>>>> 3227 bcc_ptr);
>>>> 3228 else
>>>> 3229 #endif /* CIFS_WEAK_PW_HASH */
>>>>
>>>> Connor
>>>
>>>
>>> Ave all
>>>
>>> I recompiled kernel 3.0-rc1 (hadn't enabled CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO=y) and put
>>> the oops (with the new adresses) through gdb per instruction of Jeff. And
>>> Connor was spot on!
>>>
>>> <qoute oops>
>>> BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000000000000a0
>>> IP: [<ffffffffa041e286>] CIFSTCon+0xf6/0x4d0 [cifs]
>>> </qoute oops>
>>>
>>> <qoute gdb>
>>> This GDB was configured as "x86_64-linux-gnu".
>>> For bug reporting instructions, please see:
>>> <http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/bugs/>...
>>> Reading symbols from
>>> /lib/modules/3.0.0-rc1-debug/kernel/fs/cifs/cifs.ko...done.
>>> (gdb) list *(CIFSTCon+0xf6)
>>> 0xc2b6 is in CIFSTCon (fs/cifs/connect.c:3230).
>>> 3225 ses->server->sec_mode &
>>> 3226 SECMODE_PW_ENCRYPT ?
>>> true : false,
>>> 3227 bcc_ptr);
>>> 3228 else
>>> 3229 #endif /* CIFS_WEAK_PW_HASH */
>>> 3230 rc = SMBNTencrypt(tcon->password,
>>> ses->server->cryptkey,
>>> 3231 bcc_ptr);
>>> 3232
>>> 3233 bcc_ptr += CIFS_AUTH_RESP_SIZE;
>>> 3234 if (ses->capabilities & CAP_UNICODE) {
>>> (gdb)
>>> </qoute gdb>
>>>
>>
>> (cc'ing Sean F. since I suspect this regression is due to his changes)
>>
>> Thanks for the analysis, Martijn and Connor...
>>
>> What sort of server are you mounting here? It looks like it's using
>> share-level security, so it's either very old or is a samba server
>> configured that way.
>>
>> I suspect that commit c1508ca236 is the culprit. With that, we call
>> into expand_dfs_referral on every mount attempt. Previously we only
>> called into there when we got back an EREMOTE error and that would
>> have been unlikely on a share-level security connection.
>>
>> I think there are several possible solutions, but since Sean was in
>> here most recently I'd like to have his opinion.
>
> I don't know enough about cifs but this call in fs/cifs/connect.c
>
> 2268: rc = CIFSTCon(xid, pSesInfo, temp_unc, NULL, nls_codepage);
>
> will always result in a null pointer derefence as CIFSTCon uses the
> cifs_tcon struct for passwords without verification

Yes, I too was hovering around this code path today and it doesn't look
correct. Specifically, the call from cifs_dfs_path to CIFSTCon with
cifs_tcon as NULL seems wrong. I tried to do dig history a bit with `git
blame`, but couldn't figure out the commit that introduced this.


--
Suresh Jayaraman


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