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orangefs: fix xattr related buffer overflow...
Willy Tarreau <[email protected]> forwarded me a message from Disclosure <[email protected]> with the following warning: > The helper `xattr_key()` uses the pointer variable in the loop condition > rather than dereferencing it. As `key` is incremented, it remains non-NULL > (until it runs into unmapped memory), so the loop does not terminate on > valid C strings and will walk memory indefinitely, consuming CPU or hanging > the thread. I easily reproduced this with setfattr and getfattr, causing a kernel oops, hung user processes and corrupted orangefs files. Disclosure sent along a diff (not a patch) with a suggested fix, which I based this patch on. After xattr_key started working right, xfstest generic/069 exposed an xattr related memory leak that lead to OOM. xattr_key returns a hashed key. When adding xattrs to the orangefs xattr cache, orangefs used hash_add, a kernel hashing macro. hash_add also hashes the key using hash_log which resulted in additions to the xattr cache going to the wrong hash bucket. generic/069 tortures a single file and orangefs does a getattr for the xattr "security.capability" every time. Orangefs negative caches on xattrs which includes a kmalloc. Since adds to the xattr cache were going to the wrong bucket, every getattr for "security.capability" resulted in another kmalloc, none of which were ever freed. I changed the two uses of hash_add to hlist_add_head instead and the memory leak ceased and generic/069 quit throwing furniture. Signed-off-by: Mike Marshall <[email protected]> Reported-by: Stanislav Fort of Aisle Research <[email protected]>
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fs/orangefs/xattr.c

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@@ -54,7 +54,9 @@ static inline int convert_to_internal_xattr_flags(int setxattr_flags)
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static unsigned int xattr_key(const char *key)
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{
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unsigned int i = 0;
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while (key)
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if (!key)
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return 0;
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while (*key)
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i += *key++;
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return i % 16;
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}
@@ -175,8 +177,8 @@ ssize_t orangefs_inode_getxattr(struct inode *inode, const char *name,
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cx->length = -1;
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cx->timeout = jiffies +
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orangefs_getattr_timeout_msecs*HZ/1000;
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hash_add(orangefs_inode->xattr_cache, &cx->node,
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xattr_key(cx->key));
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hlist_add_head( &cx->node,
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&orangefs_inode->xattr_cache[xattr_key(cx->key)]);
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}
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}
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goto out_release_op;
@@ -229,8 +231,8 @@ ssize_t orangefs_inode_getxattr(struct inode *inode, const char *name,
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memcpy(cx->val, buffer, length);
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cx->length = length;
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cx->timeout = jiffies + HZ;
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hash_add(orangefs_inode->xattr_cache, &cx->node,
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xattr_key(cx->key));
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hlist_add_head(&cx->node,
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&orangefs_inode->xattr_cache[xattr_key(cx->key)]);
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}
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}
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