[linux-cifs-client] [PATCH 1/2] cifs: fix buffer size for tcon->nativeFileSystem field

[Jeff Layton]

On Thu, 16 Apr 2009 15:41:33 +0000
Dave Kleikamp <shaggy at linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 2009-04-16 at 11:21 -0400, Jeff Layton wrote:
> > The buffer for this was resized recently to fix a bug. It's still
> > possible however that a malicious server could overflow this field
> > by sending characters in it that are >2 bytes in the local charset.
> > Double the size of the buffer to account for this possibility.
> > 
> > Also get rid of some really strange and seemingly pointless NULL
> > termination. It's NULL terminating the string in the source buffer,
> > but by the time that happens, we've already copied the string.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton at redhat.com>
> > ---
> >  fs/cifs/connect.c |    7 ++-----
> >  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/fs/cifs/connect.c b/fs/cifs/connect.c
> > index 01e280c..1a93604 100644
> > --- a/fs/cifs/connect.c
> > +++ b/fs/cifs/connect.c
> > @@ -3756,16 +3756,13 @@ CIFSTCon(unsigned int xid, struct cifsSesInfo *ses,
> >  			    BCC(smb_buffer_response)) {
> >  				kfree(tcon->nativeFileSystem);
> >  				tcon->nativeFileSystem =
> > -				    kzalloc(2*(length + 1), GFP_KERNEL);
> > +				    kzalloc((4 * length) + 2, GFP_KERNEL);
> >  				if (tcon->nativeFileSystem)
> >  					cifs_strfromUCS_le(
> >  						tcon->nativeFileSystem,
> >  						(__le16 *) bcc_ptr,
> >  						length, nls_codepage);
> > -				bcc_ptr += 2 * length;
> > -				bcc_ptr[0] = 0;	/* null terminate the string */
> > -				bcc_ptr[1] = 0;
> > -				bcc_ptr += 2;
> > +				bcc_ptr += (2 * length) + 2;
> 
> What's the point of updating bcc_ptr here?  It's not accurate anyway.
> The correct thing would be:
> 
> bcc_ptr += cifs_strfromUCS_le(... );
> 
> but bcc_ptr isn't used again, so there's no point.
> 

You're right. There is no point. I just did it so that it would be
updated in case someone did need to use it in the future, but it can
safely be removed as long as that never happens.

-- 
Jeff Layton <jlayton at redhat.com>