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authorJeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>2012-10-10 15:25:26 -0400
committerAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2012-10-12 00:32:03 -0400
commita608ca21f58ee44df5a71ba140e98498f3ebc2cd (patch)
tree4ba6f5d5414ba9b579c8e41eb30c21a709537922
parent4fa6b5ecbf092c6ee752ece8a55d71f663d23254 (diff)
downloadlinux-a608ca21f58ee44df5a71ba140e98498f3ebc2cd.tar.gz
vfs: allocate page instead of names_cache buffer in mount_block_root
First, it's incorrect to call putname() after __getname_gfp() since the
bare __getname_gfp() call skips the auditing code, while putname()
doesn't.

mount_block_root allocates a PATH_MAX buffer via __getname_gfp, and then
calls get_fs_names to fill the buffer. That function can call
get_filesystem_list which assumes that that buffer is a full page in
size. On arches where PAGE_SIZE != 4k, then this could potentially
overrun.

In practice, it's hard to imagine the list of filesystem names even
approaching 4k, but it's best to be safe. Just allocate a page for this
purpose instead.

With this, we can also remove the __getname_gfp() definition since there
are no more callers.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
-rw-r--r--include/linux/fs.h3
-rw-r--r--init/do_mounts.c7
2 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h
index 8ef2fc9f1f08..b44b4ca82164 100644
--- a/include/linux/fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/fs.h
@@ -2228,8 +2228,7 @@ extern void __init vfs_caches_init(unsigned long);
 
 extern struct kmem_cache *names_cachep;
 
-#define __getname_gfp(gfp)	kmem_cache_alloc(names_cachep, (gfp))
-#define __getname()		__getname_gfp(GFP_KERNEL)
+#define __getname()		kmem_cache_alloc(names_cachep, GFP_KERNEL)
 #define __putname(name)		kmem_cache_free(names_cachep, (void *)(name))
 #ifndef CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL
 #define putname(name)   __putname(name)
diff --git a/init/do_mounts.c b/init/do_mounts.c
index d3f0aeed2d39..f8a66424360d 100644
--- a/init/do_mounts.c
+++ b/init/do_mounts.c
@@ -353,8 +353,9 @@ static int __init do_mount_root(char *name, char *fs, int flags, void *data)
 
 void __init mount_block_root(char *name, int flags)
 {
-	char *fs_names = __getname_gfp(GFP_KERNEL
-		| __GFP_NOTRACK_FALSE_POSITIVE);
+	struct page *page = alloc_page(GFP_KERNEL |
+					__GFP_NOTRACK_FALSE_POSITIVE);
+	char *fs_names = page_address(page);
 	char *p;
 #ifdef CONFIG_BLOCK
 	char b[BDEVNAME_SIZE];
@@ -406,7 +407,7 @@ retry:
 #endif
 	panic("VFS: Unable to mount root fs on %s", b);
 out:
-	putname(fs_names);
+	put_page(page);
 }
  
 #ifdef CONFIG_ROOT_NFS