Re: [PATCH] [RESEND] orangefs: fix out-of-bounds fsid access

[Jan Kara]

On Mon 08-04-24 09:50:43, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
> 
> orangefs_statfs() copies two consecutive fields of the superblock into
> the statfs structure, which triggers a warning from the string fortification
> helpers:
> 
> In file included from fs/orangefs/super.c:8:
> include/linux/fortify-string.h:592:4: error: call to '__read_overflow2_field' declared with 'warning' attribute: detected read beyond size of field (2nd parameter); maybe use struct_group()? [-Werror,-Wattribute-warning]
>                         __read_overflow2_field(q_size_field, size);
> 
> Change the memcpy() to an individual assignment of the two fields, which helps
> both the compiler and human readers understand better what it does.
> 
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230622101701.3399585-1-arnd@xxxxxxxxxx/
> Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: linux-fsdevel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: Mike Marshall <hubcap@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Martin Brandenburg <martin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Resending to VFS maintainers, I sent this a couple of times to the
> orangefs maintainers but never got a reply
> ---
>  fs/orangefs/super.c | 5 ++++-
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/orangefs/super.c b/fs/orangefs/super.c
> index fb4d09c2f531..152478295766 100644
> --- a/fs/orangefs/super.c
> +++ b/fs/orangefs/super.c
> @@ -201,7 +201,10 @@ static int orangefs_statfs(struct dentry *dentry, struct kstatfs *buf)
>  		     (long)new_op->downcall.resp.statfs.files_avail);
>  
>  	buf->f_type = sb->s_magic;
> -	memcpy(&buf->f_fsid, &ORANGEFS_SB(sb)->fs_id, sizeof(buf->f_fsid));
> +	buf->f_fsid = (__kernel_fsid_t) {{
> +		ORANGEFS_SB(sb)->fs_id,
> +		ORANGEFS_SB(sb)->id,
> +	}};

Frankly, this initializer is hard to understand for me. Why not simple:

	buf->f_fsid[0] = ORANGEFS_SB(sb)->fs_id;
	buf->f_fsid[1] = ORANGEFS_SB(sb)->id;

								Honza
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Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxxx>
SUSE Labs, CR