Thread (22 messages) 22 messages, 1 author, 2012-02-10

[11/21] eCryptfs: Infinite loop due to overflow in ecryptfs_write()

From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Date: 2012-02-10 22:50:37
Also in: lkml

2.6.32-longterm review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Li Wang <redacted>

commit 684a3ff7e69acc7c678d1a1394fe9e757993fd34 upstream.

ecryptfs_write() can enter an infinite loop when truncating a file to a
size larger than 4G. This only happens on architectures where size_t is
represented by 32 bits.

This was caused by a size_t overflow due to it incorrectly being used to
store the result of a calculation which uses potentially large values of
type loff_t.

[tyhicks@canonical.com: rewrite subject and commit message]
Signed-off-by: Li Wang <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Yunchuan Wen <redacted>
Reviewed-by: Cong Wang <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Tyler Hicks <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 fs/ecryptfs/read_write.c |    4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/fs/ecryptfs/read_write.c
+++ b/fs/ecryptfs/read_write.c
@@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ int ecryptfs_write(struct file *ecryptfs
 		pgoff_t ecryptfs_page_idx = (pos >> PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT);
 		size_t start_offset_in_page = (pos & ~PAGE_CACHE_MASK);
 		size_t num_bytes = (PAGE_CACHE_SIZE - start_offset_in_page);
-		size_t total_remaining_bytes = ((offset + size) - pos);
+		loff_t total_remaining_bytes = ((offset + size) - pos);
 
 		if (fatal_signal_pending(current)) {
 			rc = -EINTR;
@@ -145,7 +145,7 @@ int ecryptfs_write(struct file *ecryptfs
 			num_bytes = total_remaining_bytes;
 		if (pos < offset) {
 			/* remaining zeros to write, up to destination offset */
-			size_t total_remaining_zeros = (offset - pos);
+			loff_t total_remaining_zeros = (offset - pos);
 
 			if (num_bytes > total_remaining_zeros)
 				num_bytes = total_remaining_zeros;

Keyboard shortcuts
hback out one level
jnext message in thread
kprevious message in thread
ldrill in
Escclose help / fold thread tree
?toggle this help