Re: [PATCH] nfsd: wrong index used in inner loop

From: J. Bruce Fields
Date: Thu Mar 17 2011 - 13:52:42 EST


On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 10:31:45AM +0800, Mi Jinlong wrote:
>
>
> J. Bruce Fields:
> > Actually, wait, this is kind of silly. I don't see why we couldn't just
> > skip the loop and do
> >
> > p += dummy;
> >
> > Also, your new test is still failing with a BAD_XDR error. Well, maybe
> > the test should fail--we don't really implement this yet anyway--but it
> > should at least be getting past the xdr decoding. So something else is
> > still wrong.
>
> How did you modify it??
>
> When testing it, I modify as
>
> - for (j = 0; j < dummy; ++j)
> - READ32(dummy);
> + p += dummy;
>
> or
>
> - for (j = 0; j < dummy; ++j)
> - READ32(dummy);
>
> Test case CSESS16 and CSESS16a are PASS,
> I can't get BAD_XDR error as you said.

Yes, I thought I had the former, but perhaps I had the wrong kernel
running on my test server. I've confirmed those tests pass after the
following patch.

--b.

commit 5a02ab7c3c4580f94d13c683721039855b67cda6
Author: Mi Jinlong <mijinlong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri Mar 11 12:13:55 2011 +0800

nfsd: wrong index used in inner loop

We must not use dummy for index.
After the first index, READ32(dummy) will change dummy!!!!

Signed-off-by: Mi Jinlong <mijinlong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
[bfields@xxxxxxxxxx: Trond points out READ_BUF alone is sufficient.]
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@xxxxxxxxxx>

diff --git a/fs/nfsd/nfs4xdr.c b/fs/nfsd/nfs4xdr.c
index 615f0a9..c6766af 100644
--- a/fs/nfsd/nfs4xdr.c
+++ b/fs/nfsd/nfs4xdr.c
@@ -1142,7 +1142,7 @@ nfsd4_decode_create_session(struct nfsd4_compoundargs *argp,

u32 dummy;
char *machine_name;
- int i, j;
+ int i;
int nr_secflavs;

READ_BUF(16);
@@ -1215,8 +1215,6 @@ nfsd4_decode_create_session(struct nfsd4_compoundargs *argp,
READ_BUF(4);
READ32(dummy);
READ_BUF(dummy * 4);
- for (j = 0; j < dummy; ++j)
- READ32(dummy);
break;
case RPC_AUTH_GSS:
dprintk("RPC_AUTH_GSS callback secflavor "
@@ -1232,7 +1230,6 @@ nfsd4_decode_create_session(struct nfsd4_compoundargs *argp,
READ_BUF(4);
READ32(dummy);
READ_BUF(dummy);
- p += XDR_QUADLEN(dummy);
break;
default:
dprintk("Illegal callback secflavor\n");
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