Re: Slab out of bounds in setxattr
From: Dave Kleikamp
Date: Mon Jun 04 2018 - 14:24:53 EST
On 06/01/2018 11:06 PM, shankarapailoor wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Looking at the crash some more, it seems that if value_len > PAGE_SIZE
> then e_buf->max_size is rounded up nearest page size [1]. If a new
> attribute is added with value_len < e_buf->max_size - EA_SIZE(ea) then
> no new space is allocated for the attiribute list [2] and this
> triggers the KASAN slab out of bounds error. This is the case in the C
> repro I provided.
I see the problem. It looks like we should be calculating max_size
earlier and using that to call kmalloc(). (xattr.c#496)
Shaggy
>
>
> 1. https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v4.17-rc7/source/fs/jfs/xattr.c#L501
> 2. https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v4.17-rc7/source/fs/jfs/xattr.c#L723
>
> On Fri, Jun 1, 2018 at 1:52 PM, shankarapailoor
> <shankarapailoor@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Hi Dave et al,
>>
>> I have been fuzzing linux 4.17-rc4 with JFS using Syzkaller KASAN:
>> slab-out-of-bounds in jfs_xattr.
>>
>> Attached are my kernel configs and a C reproducer. In the first
>> setxattr call it appears that length is much larger than the name. In
>> __jfs_setxattr, I don't see where the length is checked against the
>> actual value length.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Shankara Pailoor
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