Re: [PATCH] rbd: remove VLA usage

[Ilya Dryomov]

On Fri, Mar 30, 2018 at 9:17 PM, Gustavo A. R. Silva
<gustavo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> In preparation to enabling -Wvla, remove the use of stack VLA.
>
> In this particular case, variable buf_size is replaced with a constant
> expression that can be computed at preprocessing time. This avoids two
> VLA warnings. Also, as a consequence of the mentioned change, some code
> was slightly refactored.
>
> The use of stack Variable Length Arrays needs to be avoided, as they
> can be a vector for stack exhaustion, which can be both a runtime bug
> or a security flaw. Also, in general, as code evolves it is easy to
> lose track of how big a VLA can get. Thus, we can end up having runtime
> failures that are hard to debug.
>
> Also, fixed as part of the directive to remove all VLAs from
> the kernel: https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/3/7/621
>
> Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/block/rbd.c | 15 +++++++--------
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/block/rbd.c b/drivers/block/rbd.c
> index 1e03b04..5133122 100644
> --- a/drivers/block/rbd.c
> +++ b/drivers/block/rbd.c
> @@ -3091,20 +3091,20 @@ static int __rbd_notify_op_lock(struct rbd_device *rbd_dev,
>  {
>         struct ceph_osd_client *osdc = &rbd_dev->rbd_client->client->osdc;
>         struct rbd_client_id cid = rbd_get_cid(rbd_dev);
> -       int buf_size = 4 + 8 + 8 + CEPH_ENCODING_START_BLK_LEN;
> -       char buf[buf_size];
> +       char buf[4 + 8 + 8 + CEPH_ENCODING_START_BLK_LEN];
>         void *p = buf;
>
>         dout("%s rbd_dev %p notify_op %d\n", __func__, rbd_dev, notify_op);
>
>         /* encode *LockPayload NotifyMessage (op + ClientId) */
> -       ceph_start_encoding(&p, 2, 1, buf_size - CEPH_ENCODING_START_BLK_LEN);
> +       ceph_start_encoding(&p, 2, 1,
> +                           sizeof(buf) - CEPH_ENCODING_START_BLK_LEN);
>         ceph_encode_32(&p, notify_op);
>         ceph_encode_64(&p, cid.gid);
>         ceph_encode_64(&p, cid.handle);
>
>         return ceph_osdc_notify(osdc, &rbd_dev->header_oid,
> -                               &rbd_dev->header_oloc, buf, buf_size,
> +                               &rbd_dev->header_oloc, buf, sizeof(buf),
>                                 RBD_NOTIFY_TIMEOUT, preply_pages, preply_len);
>  }
>
> @@ -3610,19 +3610,18 @@ static void __rbd_acknowledge_notify(struct rbd_device *rbd_dev,
>                                      u64 notify_id, u64 cookie, s32 *result)
>  {
>         struct ceph_osd_client *osdc = &rbd_dev->rbd_client->client->osdc;
> -       int buf_size = 4 + CEPH_ENCODING_START_BLK_LEN;
> -       char buf[buf_size];
> +       char buf[4 + CEPH_ENCODING_START_BLK_LEN];
> +       int buf_size = 0;
>         int ret;
>
>         if (result) {
>                 void *p = buf;
>
> +               buf_size = sizeof(buf);
>                 /* encode ResponseMessage */
>                 ceph_start_encoding(&p, 1, 1,
>                                     buf_size - CEPH_ENCODING_START_BLK_LEN);
>                 ceph_encode_32(&p, *result);
> -       } else {
> -               buf_size = 0;
>         }
>
>         ret = ceph_osdc_notify_ack(osdc, &rbd_dev->header_oid,

Already fixed:

  https://github.com/ceph/ceph-client/commit/2474e77e75215a3cad3b652d2f55ba5b123cb119

Thanks,

                Ilya