The NFSv2/NFSv3 server does not handle zero length WRITE requests correctly

The NFSv2 and NFSv3 servers do not handle WRITE requests for 0 bytes
correctly.  The specifications indicate that the server should accept the
request, but it should mostly turn into a no-op.  Currently, the server
will return an XDR decode error, which it should not.

Attached is a patch which addresses this issue.  It also adds some boundary
checking to ensure that the request contains as much data as was requested
to be written.  It also correctly handles an NFSv3 request which requests
to write more data than the server has stated that it is prepared to
handle.  Previously, there was some support which looked like it should
work, but wasn't quite right.

Signed-off-by: Peter Staubach <staubach@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 38 insertions, 10 deletions

diff --git a/fs/nfsd/nfs3xdr.c b/fs/nfsd/nfs3xdr.c
index 7e4bb0af24d..43fb360784b 100644
--- a/fs/nfsd/nfs3xdr.c
+++ b/fs/nfsd/nfs3xdr.c
@@ -369,7 +369,7 @@ int
 nfs3svc_decode_writeargs(struct svc_rqst *rqstp, __be32 *p,
 					struct nfsd3_writeargs *args)
 {
-	unsigned int len, v, hdr;
+	unsigned int len, v, hdr, dlen;
 	u32 max_blocksize = svc_max_payload(rqstp);
 
 	if (!(p = decode_fh(p, &args->fh))
@@ -379,18 +379,47 @@ nfs3svc_decode_writeargs(struct svc_rqst *rqstp, __be32 *p,
 	args->count = ntohl(*p++);
 	args->stable = ntohl(*p++);
 	len = args->len = ntohl(*p++);
+	/*
+	 * The count must equal the amount of data passed.
+	 */
+	if (args->count != args->len)
+		return 0;
 
+	/*
+	 * Check to make sure that we got the right number of
+	 * bytes.
+	 *
+	 * If more than one page was used, then compute the length
+	 * of the data in the request as the total size of the
+	 * request minus the transport protocol headers minus the
+	 * RPC protocol headers minus the NFS protocol fields
+	 * already consumed.  If the request fits into a single
+	 * page, then compete the length of the data as the size
+	 * of the NFS portion of the request minus the NFS
+	 * protocol fields already consumed.
+	 */
 	hdr = (void*)p - rqstp->rq_arg.head[0].iov_base;
-	if (rqstp->rq_arg.len < hdr ||
-	    rqstp->rq_arg.len - hdr < len)
+	if (rqstp->rq_respages != rqstp->rq_pages + 1) {
+		dlen = rqstp->rq_arg.len -
+			(PAGE_SIZE - rqstp->rq_arg.head[0].iov_len) - hdr;
+	} else {
+		dlen = rqstp->rq_arg.head[0].iov_len - hdr;
+	}
+	/*
+	 * Round the length of the data which was specified up to
+	 * the next multiple of XDR units and then compare that
+	 * against the length which was actually received.
+	 */
+	if (dlen != ((len + 3) & ~0x3))
 		return 0;
 
+	if (args->count > max_blocksize) {
+		args->count = max_blocksize;
+		len = args->len = max_blocksize;
+	}
 	rqstp->rq_vec[0].iov_base = (void*)p;
 	rqstp->rq_vec[0].iov_len = rqstp->rq_arg.head[0].iov_len - hdr;
-
-	if (len > max_blocksize)
-		len = max_blocksize;
-	v=  0;
+	v = 0;
 	while (len > rqstp->rq_vec[v].iov_len) {
 		len -= rqstp->rq_vec[v].iov_len;
 		v++;
@@ -398,9 +427,8 @@ nfs3svc_decode_writeargs(struct svc_rqst *rqstp, __be32 *p,
 		rqstp->rq_vec[v].iov_len = PAGE_SIZE;
 	}
 	rqstp->rq_vec[v].iov_len = len;
-	args->vlen = v+1;
-
-	return args->count == args->len && rqstp->rq_vec[0].iov_len > 0;
+	args->vlen = v + 1;
+	return 1;
 }
 
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