2024-04-04 15:26:03

by Chuck Lever III

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Subject: Re: [PATCH] fs: Set file_handle::handle_bytes before referencing file_handle::f_handle

On Thu, Apr 04, 2024 at 11:19:00AM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
> On Wed 03-04-24 14:54:03, Kees Cook wrote:
> > With adding __counted_by(handle_bytes) to struct file_handle, we need
> > to explicitly set it in the one place it wasn't yet happening prior to
> > accessing the flex array "f_handle".
> >
> > Fixes: 1b43c4629756 ("fs: Annotate struct file_handle with __counted_by() and use struct_size()")
> > Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <[email protected]>
>
> OK, so this isn't really a functional bug AFAIU but the compiler will
> wrongly complain we are accessing handle->f_handle beyond claimed array
> size (because handle->handle_bytes == 0 at that point). Am I right? If
> that's the case, please add a short comment explaining this (because it
> looks odd we set handle->handle_bytes and then reset it a few lines later).
> With the comment feel free to add:
>
> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <[email protected]>
>
> Honza

I agree, an in-code comment is needed.

Acked-by: Chuck Lever <[email protected]>


> > ---
> > Cc: Christian Brauner <[email protected]>
> > Cc: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <[email protected]>
> > Cc: Alexander Viro <[email protected]>
> > Cc: Jan Kara <[email protected]>
> > Cc: Chuck Lever <[email protected]>
> > Cc: Jeff Layton <[email protected]>
> > Cc: Amir Goldstein <[email protected]>
> > Cc: [email protected]
> > Cc: [email protected]
> > Cc: [email protected]
> > ---
> > fs/fhandle.c | 1 +
> > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/fs/fhandle.c b/fs/fhandle.c
> > index 53ed54711cd2..08ec2340dd22 100644
> > --- a/fs/fhandle.c
> > +++ b/fs/fhandle.c
> > @@ -40,6 +40,7 @@ static long do_sys_name_to_handle(const struct path *path,
> > GFP_KERNEL);
> > if (!handle)
> > return -ENOMEM;
> > + handle->handle_bytes = f_handle.handle_bytes;
> >
> > /* convert handle size to multiple of sizeof(u32) */
> > handle_dwords = f_handle.handle_bytes >> 2;
> > --
> > 2.34.1
> >
> --
> Jan Kara <[email protected]>
> SUSE Labs, CR

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Chuck Lever