[PATCH] corrupted cramfs filesystems cause kernel oops

From: Phillip Lougher
Date: Sat Nov 04 2006 - 23:02:27 EST


Steve Grubb's fzfuzzer tool (http://people.redhat.com/sgrubb/files/ fsfuzzer-0.6.tar.gz) generates corrupt Cramfs filesystems which cause Cramfs to kernel oops in cramfs_uncompress_block(). The cause of the oops is an unchecked corrupted block length field read by cramfs_readpage().

This patch adds a sanity check to cramfs_readpage() which checks that the block length field is sensible. The (PAGE_CACHE_SIZE << 1) size check is intentional, even though the uncompressed data is not going to be larger than PAGE_CACHE_SIZE, gzip sometimes generates compressed data larger than the original source data. Mkcramfs checks that the compressed size is always less than or equal to PAGE_CACHE_SIZE << 1. Of course Cramfs could use the original uncompressed data in this case, but it doesn't.

Patch is against 2.6.19-rc4.

Signed-off-by: Phillip Lougher <phillip <at> lougher.org.uk>

diff -Nurp a/fs/cramfs/inode.c b/fs/cramfs/inode.c
--- a/fs/cramfs/inode.c 2006-11-05 00:59:53.000000000 +0000
+++ b/fs/cramfs/inode.c 2006-11-05 03:17:43.000000000 +0000
@@ -481,6 +481,8 @@ static int cramfs_readpage(struct file *
pgdata = kmap(page);
if (compr_len == 0)
; /* hole */
+ else if (compr_len > (PAGE_CACHE_SIZE << 1))
+ printk(KERN_ERR "cramfs: bad compressed blocksize %u\n", compr_len);
else {
mutex_lock(&read_mutex);
bytes_filled = cramfs_uncompress_block(pgdata,


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