Re: [PATCH v2] ubifs: Fix read out-of-bounds in ubifs_jnl_write_inode()

[Richard Weinberger]

Chengsong Ke,

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> The memory area allocated in ubifs_jnl_write_inode() is not aligned with 8
> bytes:
> ino_start = ino = kmalloc(write_len, GFP_NOFS);
> 
> When ino_start passed into write_head -> ubifs_wbuf_write_nolock:
>    n = aligned_len >> c->max_write_shift;
>    if (n) {
>      n <<= c->max_write_shift;
>      err = ubifs_leb_write(c, wbuf->lnum, buf + written, wbuf->offs, n);
>      // Read oob occurs here, read n bytes from buf, and buf is passed from
>      @ino_start which is
>      // not 8 bytes aligned(write_len < n). Program read (n - write_len) more bytes.
>    }
> 
> Reproducer:
> 0. config KASAN && apply print.patch
> 1. mount ubifs on /root/temp
> 2. run test.sh

What does test.sh do?

> 3. cd /root/temp && ls // change atime for link_file
> 4. wait 1~2 minutes
> 
> In order to solve the read oob problem in ubifs_wbuf_write_nolock, just align
> the write_len to
> 8 bytes when alloc the memory. So that this patch will not affect the use of
> write_len in other
> functions, such as ubifs_jnl_write_inode->make_reservation and
> ubifs_jnl_write_inode->ubifs_node_calc_hash.

I gave this a second thought and I'm not so sure anymore what exactly is going on.
The problem is real, I fully agree with you but I need to dig deeper into
the journal and wbuf code to double check that we really fix the right thing
and not just paper other something.

Thanks,
//richard