[PATCH] 9p: fix off by one causing access violations and memory corruption

From: Sasha Levin
Date: Thu Jul 11 2013 - 13:17:26 EST


p9_release_pages() would attempt to dereference one value past the end of
pages[]. This would cause the following crashes:

[ 6293.171817] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffff8807c96f3000
[ 6293.174146] IP: [<ffffffff8412793b>] p9_release_pages+0x3b/0x60
[ 6293.176447] PGD 79c5067 PUD 82c1e3067 PMD 82c197067 PTE 80000007c96f3060
[ 6293.180060] Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
[ 6293.180060] Modules linked in:
[ 6293.180060] CPU: 62 PID: 174043 Comm: modprobe Tainted: G W 3.10.0-next-20130710-sasha #3954
[ 6293.180060] task: ffff8807b803b000 ti: ffff880787dde000 task.ti: ffff880787dde000
[ 6293.180060] RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff8412793b>] [<ffffffff8412793b>] p9_release_pages+0x3b/0x60
[ 6293.214316] RSP: 0000:ffff880787ddfc28 EFLAGS: 00010202
[ 6293.214316] RAX: 0000000000000001 RBX: ffff8807c96f2ff8 RCX: 0000000000000000
[ 6293.222017] RDX: ffff8807b803b000 RSI: 0000000000000001 RDI: ffffea001c7e3d40
[ 6293.222017] RBP: ffff880787ddfc48 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
[ 6293.222017] R10: 0000000000000001 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000000001
[ 6293.222017] R13: 0000000000000001 R14: ffff8807cc50c070 R15: ffff8807cc50c070
[ 6293.222017] FS: 00007f572641d700(0000) GS:ffff8807f3600000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[ 6293.256784] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b
[ 6293.256784] CR2: ffff8807c96f3000 CR3: 00000007c8e81000 CR4: 00000000000006e0
[ 6293.256784] Stack:
[ 6293.256784] ffff880787ddfcc8 ffff880787ddfcc8 0000000000000000 ffff880787ddfcc8
[ 6293.256784] ffff880787ddfd48 ffffffff84128be8 ffff880700000002 0000000000000001
[ 6293.256784] ffff8807b803b000 ffff880787ddfce0 0000100000000000 0000000000000000
[ 6293.256784] Call Trace:
[ 6293.256784] [<ffffffff84128be8>] p9_virtio_zc_request+0x598/0x630
[ 6293.256784] [<ffffffff8115c610>] ? wake_up_bit+0x40/0x40
[ 6293.256784] [<ffffffff841209b1>] p9_client_zc_rpc+0x111/0x3a0
[ 6293.256784] [<ffffffff81174b78>] ? sched_clock_cpu+0x108/0x120
[ 6293.256784] [<ffffffff84122a21>] p9_client_read+0xe1/0x2c0
[ 6293.256784] [<ffffffff81708a90>] v9fs_file_read+0x90/0xc0
[ 6293.256784] [<ffffffff812bd073>] vfs_read+0xc3/0x130
[ 6293.256784] [<ffffffff811a78bd>] ? trace_hardirqs_on+0xd/0x10
[ 6293.256784] [<ffffffff812bd5a2>] SyS_read+0x62/0xa0
[ 6293.256784] [<ffffffff841a1a00>] tracesys+0xdd/0xe2
[ 6293.256784] Code: 66 90 48 89 fb 41 89 f5 48 8b 3f 48 85 ff 74 29 85 f6 74 25 45 31 e4 66 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 e8 eb 14 12 fd 41 ff c4 49 63 c4 <48> 8b 3c c3 48 85 ff 74 05 45 39 e5 75 e7 48 83 c4 08 5b 41 5c
[ 6293.256784] RIP [<ffffffff8412793b>] p9_release_pages+0x3b/0x60
[ 6293.256784] RSP <ffff880787ddfc28>
[ 6293.256784] CR2: ffff8807c96f3000
[ 6293.256784] ---[ end trace 50822ee72cd360fc ]---

Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
net/9p/trans_common.c | 10 +++++-----
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/9p/trans_common.c b/net/9p/trans_common.c
index de8df95..2ee3879 100644
--- a/net/9p/trans_common.c
+++ b/net/9p/trans_common.c
@@ -24,11 +24,11 @@
*/
void p9_release_pages(struct page **pages, int nr_pages)
{
- int i = 0;
- while (pages[i] && nr_pages--) {
- put_page(pages[i]);
- i++;
- }
+ int i;
+
+ for (i = 0; i < nr_pages; i++)
+ if (pages[i])
+ put_page(pages[i]);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(p9_release_pages);

--
1.8.1.2

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