On Tue, Apr 08, 2014 at 10:45:31AM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
> It seems that when we attempt to read huge chunks of data from a seq file
> there would be no check for the size being read, leading to the kernel
> attempting to allocate huge chunks of data internally.
>
> As far as I remember, there was a PAGE_SIZE limitation on those, but I'm
> not certain about that. Could someone please confirm it?
I've had this diff sitting around for a while to figure out which
seq_file we're talking about. I think Al wrote it, I forget..
diff --git a/fs/seq_file.c b/fs/seq_file.c
index 1d641bb108d2..e3ca909c8fea 100644
--- a/fs/seq_file.c
+++ b/fs/seq_file.c
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ int seq_open(struct file *file, const struct seq_operations
*op)
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(seq_open);
-static int traverse(struct seq_file *m, loff_t offset)
+static int traverse(struct file *file, struct seq_file *m, loff_t offset)
{
loff_t pos = 0, index;
int error = 0;
@@ -137,6 +137,13 @@ Eoverflow:
m->op->stop(m, p);
kfree(m->buf);
m->count = 0;
+ if ((m->size <<= 1) >= (PAGE_SIZE << 4)) {
+ printk(KERN_ERR "traverse on %s. Size: %ld\n",
+ file->f_path.dentry->d_name.name,
+ (unsigned long) (m->size));
+ m->buf = NULL;
+ return -ENOMEM;
+ }
m->buf = kmalloc(m->size <<= 1, GFP_KERNEL);
return !m->buf ? -ENOMEM : -EAGAIN;
}
@@ -176,7 +183,7 @@ ssize_t seq_read(struct file *file, char __user *buf,
size_t size, loff_t *ppos)
/* Don't assume *ppos is where we left it */
if (unlikely(*ppos != m->read_pos)) {
- while ((err = traverse(m, *ppos)) == -EAGAIN)
+ while ((err = traverse(file, m, *ppos)) == -EAGAIN)
;
if (err) {
/* With prejudice... */
@@ -192,6 +199,14 @@ ssize_t seq_read(struct file *file, char __user *buf,
size_t size, loff_t *ppos)
/* grab buffer if we didn't have one */
if (!m->buf) {
+ if ((m->size <<= 1) >= (PAGE_SIZE << 4)) {
+ printk(KERN_ERR "seq_read on %s. Size: %ld\n",
+ file->f_path.dentry->d_name.name,
+ (unsigned long) (m->size));
+ m->buf = NULL;
+ goto Enomem;;
+ }
+
m->buf = kmalloc(m->size = PAGE_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!m->buf)
goto Enomem;
@@ -234,6 +249,15 @@ ssize_t seq_read(struct file *file, char __user *buf,
size_t size, loff_t *ppos)
m->op->stop(m, p);
kfree(m->buf);
m->count = 0;
+
+ if ((m->size <<= 1) >= (PAGE_SIZE << 4)) {
+ printk(KERN_ERR "seq_read on %s. Size: %ld\n",
+ file->f_path.dentry->d_name.name,
+ (unsigned long) (m->size));
+ m->buf = NULL;
+ goto Enomem;;
+ }
+
m->buf = kmalloc(m->size <<= 1, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!m->buf)
goto Enomem;
@@ -316,7 +340,7 @@ loff_t seq_lseek(struct file *file, loff_t offset, int
whence)
break;
retval = offset;
if (offset != m->read_pos) {
- while ((retval = traverse(m, offset)) == -EAGAIN)
+ while ((retval = traverse(file, m, offset)) == -EAGAIN)
;
if (retval) {
/* with extreme prejudice... */
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