Thread (1 message) 1 message, 1 author, 2015-05-18

[PATCH 3/4] omfs: fix sign confusion for bitmap loop counter

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From: Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com>
Date: 2015-05-18 11:37:32
Also in: linux-fsdevel
Subsystem: filesystems (vfs and infrastructure), omfs filesystem, the rest · Maintainers: Alexander Viro, Christian Brauner, Bob Copeland, Linus Torvalds

The count variable is used to iterate down to (below) zero from the
size of the bitmap and handle the one-filling the remainder of the
last partial bitmap block.  The loop conditional expects count to
be signed in order to detect when the final block is processed, after
which count goes negative.

Unfortunately, a recent change made this unsigned along with some other
related fields.  The result of is this is that during mount,
omfs_get_imap will overrun the bitmap array and corrupt memory unless
number of blocks happens to be a multiple of 8 * blocksize.

Fix by changing count back to signed: it is guaranteed to fit in an s32
without overflow due to an enforced limit on the number of blocks in the
filesystem.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com>
---
 fs/omfs/inode.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/fs/omfs/inode.c b/fs/omfs/inode.c
index 6ce542c11f98..3d935c81789a 100644
--- a/fs/omfs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/omfs/inode.c
@@ -306,7 +306,8 @@ static const struct super_operations omfs_sops = {
  */
 static int omfs_get_imap(struct super_block *sb)
 {
-	unsigned int bitmap_size, count, array_size;
+	unsigned int bitmap_size, array_size;
+	int count;
 	struct omfs_sb_info *sbi = OMFS_SB(sb);
 	struct buffer_head *bh;
 	unsigned long **ptr;
-- 
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