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afs: Work around strnlen() oops with CONFIG_FORTIFIED_SOURCE=y
AFS has a structured layout in its directory contents (AFS dirs are downloaded as files and parsed locally by the client for lookup/readdir). The slots in the directory are defined by union afs_xdr_dirent. This, however, only directly allows a name of a length that will fit into that union. To support a longer name, the next 1-8 contiguous entries are annexed to the first one and the name flows across these. afs_dir_iterate_block() uses strnlen(), limited to the space to the end of the page, to find out how long the name is. This worked fine until 6a39e62. With that commit, the compiler determines the size of the array and asserts that the string fits inside that array. This is a problem for AFS because we *expect* it to overflow one or more arrays. A similar problem also occurs in afs_dir_scan_block() when a directory file is being locally edited to avoid the need to redownload it. There strlen() was being used safely because each page has the last byte set to 0 when the file is downloaded and validated (in afs_dir_check_page()). Fix this by changing the afs_xdr_dirent union name field to an indeterminate-length array and dropping the overflow field. (Note that whilst looking at this, I realised that the calculation of the number of slots a dirent used is non-standard and not quite right, but I'll address that in a separate patch.) The issue can be triggered by something like: touch /afs/example.com/thisisaveryveryverylongname and it generates a report that looks like: detected buffer overflow in strnlen ------------[ cut here ]------------ kernel BUG at lib/string.c:1149! ... RIP: 0010:fortify_panic+0xf/0x11 ... Call Trace: afs_dir_iterate_block+0x12b/0x35b afs_dir_iterate+0x14e/0x1ce afs_do_lookup+0x131/0x417 afs_lookup+0x24f/0x344 lookup_open.isra.0+0x1bb/0x27d open_last_lookups+0x166/0x237 path_openat+0xe0/0x159 do_filp_open+0x48/0xa4 ? kmem_cache_alloc+0xf5/0x16e ? __clear_close_on_exec+0x13/0x22 ? _raw_spin_unlock+0xa/0xb do_sys_openat2+0x72/0xde do_sys_open+0x3b/0x58 do_syscall_64+0x2d/0x3a entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9 Fixes: 6a39e62 ("lib: string.h: detect intra-object overflow in fortified string functions") Reported-by: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@auristor.com> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Tested-by: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@auristor.com> cc: Daniel Axtens <dja@axtens.net>
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@@ -54,10 +54,15 @@ union afs_xdr_dirent {
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__be16 hash_next;
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__be32 vnode;
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__be32 unique;
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u8 name[16];
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u8 overflow[4]; /* if any char of the name (inc
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* NUL) reaches here, consume
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* the next dirent too */
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u8 name[];
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/* When determining the number of dirent slots needed to
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* represent a directory entry, name should be assumed to be 16
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* bytes, due to a now-standardised (mis)calculation, but it is
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* in fact 20 bytes in size.
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*
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* For names longer than (16 or) 20 bytes, extra slots should
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* be annexed to this one using the extended_name format.
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*/
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} u;
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u8 extended_name[32];
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} __packed;

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