From: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com> Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 10:05:48 -0500 Subject: [fs] cifs: bad handling of EAGAIN on kernel_recvmsg Message-id: 1197385560-21991-4-git-send-email-jlayton@redhat.com O-Subject: [RHEL5.2 PATCH 03/15] BZ#336501: [CIFS] fix bad handling of EAGAIN error on kernel_recvmsg in cifs_demultiplex_thread Bugzilla: 336501 When kernel_recvmsg returns -EAGAIN or -ERESTARTSYS, then cifs_demultiplex_thread sleeps for a bit and then tries the read again. When it does this, it's not zeroing out the length and that throws off the value of total_read. Fix it to zero out the length. Can cause memory corruption: If kernel_recvmsg returns an error and total_read is a large enough value, then we'll end up going through the loop again. total_read will be a bogus value, as will (pdu_length-total_read). When this happens we end up calling kernel_recvmsg with a bogus value (possibly larger than the current iov_len). At that point, memcpy_toiovec can overrun iov. It will start walking up the stack, casting other things that are there to struct iovecs (since it assumes that it's been passed an array of them). Any pointer on the stack at an address above the kvec is a candidate for corruption here. Many thanks to Ulrich Obergfell for pointing this out. Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com> diff --git a/fs/cifs/connect.c b/fs/cifs/connect.c index 3a05c19..5f588a8 100644 --- a/fs/cifs/connect.c +++ b/fs/cifs/connect.c @@ -457,7 +457,10 @@ incomplete_rcv: msleep(1); /* minimum sleep to prevent looping allowing socket to clear and app threads to set tcpStatus CifsNeedReconnect if server hung */ - continue; + if (pdu_length < 4) + goto incomplete_rcv; + else + continue; } else if (length <= 0) { if (server->tcpStatus == CifsNew) { cFYI(1, ("tcp session abend after SMBnegprot")); @@ -594,6 +597,7 @@ incomplete_rcv: allowing socket to clear and app threads to set tcpStatus CifsNeedReconnect if server hung*/ + length = 0; continue; } else if (length <= 0) { cERROR(1, ("Received no data, expecting %d",