coda: fix 'kernel memory exposure attempt' in fsync

commit d337b66a4c52c7b04eec661d86c2ef6e168965a2 upstream.

When an application called fsync on a file in Coda a small request with
just the file identifier was allocated, but the declared length was set
to the size of union of all possible upcall requests.

This bug has been around for a very long time and is now caught by the
extra checking in usercopy that was introduced in Linux-4.8.

The exposure happens when the Coda cache manager process reads the fsync
upcall request at which point it is killed. As a result there is nobody
servicing any further upcalls, trapping any processes that try to access
the mounted Coda filesystem.

Signed-off-by: Jan Harkes <jaharkes@cs.cmu.edu>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

diff --git a/fs/coda/upcall.c b/fs/coda/upcall.c
index 5bb6e27298a469d3a20bf3e54ef37e79d3435f76..21dbff85829ac4064686ea434ae461b98705027f 100644 (file)
--- a/fs/coda/upcall.c
+++ b/fs/coda/upcall.c
@@ -446,8 +446,7 @@ int venus_fsync(struct super_block *sb, struct CodaFid *fid)
        UPARG(CODA_FSYNC);
 
        inp->coda_fsync.VFid = *fid;
-       error = coda_upcall(coda_vcp(sb), sizeof(union inputArgs),
-                           &outsize, inp);
+       error = coda_upcall(coda_vcp(sb), insize, &outsize, inp);
 
        CODA_FREE(inp, insize);
        return error;