Re: fs: out of bounds on stack in iov_iter_advance

[Al Viro]

On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 07:16:36PM +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Hi Al,
> 
> On Wed, 11 Nov 2015 07:43:30 +0000 Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > dax_io fix isn't there, neither is overlayfs magic.h patch - both are
> > already in other trees.  I would like to get xattr series in as well,
> > but that's a separate pull request, if you'd accept them in this window in
> > the first place.  richacl stuff isn't there as well, and I think that one
> > is clear "leave it for 4.5" fodder.
> 
> So could you please remove the 4.5 stuff from your for-next branch
> until after the merge window closes.

Done.

> Also, I noticed these new warnings today:
> 
> fs/orangefs/xattr.c:509:9: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type [-Wincompatible-pointer-types]
>   .get = pvfs2_xattr_get_trusted,
>          ^
> fs/orangefs/xattr.c:509:9: note: (near initialization for 'pvfs2_xattr_trusted_handler.get')
> fs/orangefs/xattr.c:510:9: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type [-Wincompatible-pointer-types]
>   .set = pvfs2_xattr_set_trusted,
>          ^
> fs/orangefs/xattr.c:510:9: note: (near initialization for 'pvfs2_xattr_trusted_handler.set')
> fs/orangefs/xattr.c:520:9: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type [-Wincompatible-pointer-types]
>   .get = pvfs2_xattr_get_default,
>          ^
> fs/orangefs/xattr.c:520:9: note: (near initialization for 'pvfs2_xattr_default_handler.get')
> fs/orangefs/xattr.c:521:9: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type [-Wincompatible-pointer-types]
>   .set = pvfs2_xattr_set_default,
>          ^
> fs/orangefs/xattr.c:521:9: note: (near initialization for 'pvfs2_xattr_default_handler.set')

That's "xattr handlers: Pass handler to operations instead of flags" fallout,
trivially adjusted (typical change is
-ext2_xattr_security_list(struct dentry *dentry, char *list, size_t list_size,
-                        const char *name, size_t name_len, int type)
+ext2_xattr_security_list(const struct xattr_handler *handler,
+                        struct dentry *dentry, char *list, size_t list_size,
+                        const char *name, size_t name_len)
with type replaced with handler->flags if it's used anywhere in the body;
AFAICS, none of orangefs instances use it at all, so it's just a matter of
changing the argument lists in pvfs2_xattr_[gs]et_{default,trusted},
adding const struct xattr_handler *handler in the beginning and removing
the last argument; callers in pvfs2_ioctl() should simply use
pvfs2_inode_[gs]etxattr()).

Note, however, that orangefs in linux-next lacks a lot of fixes (see
vfs.git#orangefs-untested for some; AFAICS, those are missing from all
branches in orangefs git tree) and there are problems I don't know
how to fix, mostly due to the lack of documentation.  The last I've
heard from them was that they were putting such docs together; hopefully
once that get done we'll be able to sort the rest of that thing out.
It'll be after -rc1, though.

So xattr conflicts are the least of the problems there; those are easy
to adjust for, there are more serious issues in the entire thing ;-/
BTW, while we are at it - pvfs2_listxattr() doesn't even validate
resp.listxattr.returned_count, so a bogus response from buggered
server will do really interesting things to the kernel.

I'll cook the minimal fixup for API change after I get some sleep and
send it your way, unless somebody gets there first...
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