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authorAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>2007-01-09 03:23:15 +0100
committerAdrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>2007-01-09 03:23:15 +0100
commitd9be428145481c9c23e02e25a49205fc9def5d36 (patch)
tree75a9bce9c079f5a2d37277462fe31b51a0fd94ed /fs
parent09d9056ce65466da2a4634c62fcfecfa70fc9605 (diff)
grow_buffers() infinite loop fix (CVE-2006-5757/CVE-2006-6060)
If grow_buffers() is for some reason passed a block number which wants to li outside the maximum-addressable pagecache range (PAGE_SIZE * 4G bytes) then will accidentally truncate `index' and will then instnatiate a page at the wrong pagecache offset. This causes __getblk_slow() to go into an infinite loop. This can happen with corrupted disks, or with software errors elsewhere. Detect that, and handle it. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs')
-rw-r--r--fs/buffer.c21
1 files changed, 19 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/fs/buffer.c b/fs/buffer.c
index a9b39940200..8a17ebb9742 100644
--- a/fs/buffer.c
+++ b/fs/buffer.c
@@ -1179,8 +1179,21 @@ grow_buffers(struct block_device *bdev, sector_t block, int size)
} while ((size << sizebits) < PAGE_SIZE);
index = block >> sizebits;
- block = index << sizebits;
+ /*
+ * Check for a block which wants to lie outside our maximum possible
+ * pagecache index. (this comparison is done using sector_t types).
+ */
+ if (unlikely(index != block >> sizebits)) {
+ char b[BDEVNAME_SIZE];
+
+ printk(KERN_ERR "%s: requested out-of-range block %llu for "
+ "device %s\n",
+ __FUNCTION__, (unsigned long long)block,
+ bdevname(bdev, b));
+ return -EIO;
+ }
+ block = index << sizebits;
/* Create a page with the proper size buffers.. */
page = grow_dev_page(bdev, block, index, size);
if (!page)
@@ -1207,12 +1220,16 @@ __getblk_slow(struct block_device *bdev, sector_t block, int size)
for (;;) {
struct buffer_head * bh;
+ int ret;
bh = __find_get_block(bdev, block, size);
if (bh)
return bh;
- if (!grow_buffers(bdev, block, size))
+ ret = grow_buffers(bdev, block, size);
+ if (ret < 0)
+ return NULL;
+ if (ret == 0)
free_more_memory();
}
}