SUNRPC: Prevent kernel stack corruption on long values of flush
authorSasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>
Mon, 16 Jul 2012 22:01:26 +0000 (00:01 +0200)
committerJ. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>
Wed, 17 Oct 2012 18:59:10 +0000 (14:59 -0400)
commit212ba90696ab4884e2025b0b13726d67aadc2cd4
tree276684ec966fb9888b0f351f347bc8ecd6bba1f9
parentcd0b16c1c3cda12dbed1f8de8f1a9b0591990724
SUNRPC: Prevent kernel stack corruption on long values of flush

The buffer size in read_flush() is too small for the longest possible values
for it. This can lead to a kernel stack corruption:

[   43.047329] Kernel panic - not syncing: stack-protector: Kernel stack is corrupted in: ffffffff833e64b4
[   43.047329]
[   43.049030] Pid: 6015, comm: trinity-child18 Tainted: G        W    3.5.0-rc7-next-20120716-sasha #221
[   43.050038] Call Trace:
[   43.050435]  [<ffffffff836c60c2>] panic+0xcd/0x1f4
[   43.050931]  [<ffffffff833e64b4>] ? read_flush.isra.7+0xe4/0x100
[   43.051602]  [<ffffffff810e94e6>] __stack_chk_fail+0x16/0x20
[   43.052206]  [<ffffffff833e64b4>] read_flush.isra.7+0xe4/0x100
[   43.052951]  [<ffffffff833e6500>] ? read_flush_pipefs+0x30/0x30
[   43.053594]  [<ffffffff833e652c>] read_flush_procfs+0x2c/0x30
[   43.053596]  [<ffffffff812b9a8c>] proc_reg_read+0x9c/0xd0
[   43.053596]  [<ffffffff812b99f0>] ? proc_reg_write+0xd0/0xd0
[   43.053596]  [<ffffffff81250d5b>] do_loop_readv_writev+0x4b/0x90
[   43.053596]  [<ffffffff81250fd6>] do_readv_writev+0xf6/0x1d0
[   43.053596]  [<ffffffff812510ee>] vfs_readv+0x3e/0x60
[   43.053596]  [<ffffffff812511b8>] sys_readv+0x48/0xb0
[   43.053596]  [<ffffffff8378167d>] system_call_fastpath+0x1a/0x1f

Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>
net/sunrpc/cache.c