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authorAchilles Gaikwad <achillesgaikwad@gmail.com>2026-07-07 11:23:05 -0400
committerAnna Schumaker <anna.schumaker@hammerspace.com>2026-07-31 13:27:25 -0400
commite053b624f5d36669756990743346157be9f68c34 (patch)
tree5fa2459882bb2d691741e7438f454b2f81e47b96
parent4aeb63d5ac2dba2a474e7b64d60776d9dd1c6cd2 (diff)
NFSv4.2: fix nfs4_listxattr size accounting
A call to listxattr() with a buffer size of 0 returns the actual size of the buffer needed for a subsequent call. On an NFSv4.2 mount this triggers the following oops: [ 399.768687] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000 [ 399.768705] RIP: 0010:_copy_from_pages+0x44/0xe0 [ 399.768722] Call Trace: [ 399.768723] nfs4_xattr_alloc_entry+0x1bf/0x1e0 [ 399.768730] nfs4_xattr_cache_set_list+0x43/0x1f0 [ 399.768731] nfs4_listxattr+0x21f/0x250 [ 399.768733] vfs_listxattr+0x55/0xa0 [ 399.768736] listxattr+0x23/0x160 [ 399.768737] path_listxattrat+0xba/0x1e0 [ 399.768739] do_syscall_64+0xe2/0x680 security_inode_listsecurity() (via the xattr_list_one() helper) now decrements the remaining size even when the buffer pointer is NULL, so in the size-query case, 'left' underflows to a huge size_t value. As a result, nfs4_listxattr_nfs4_user() treats the NULL buffer as a real one, leading to a NULL pointer dereference in _copy_from_pages(). security_inode_listsecurity() does not return the number of bytes it added to the list, so the code derived it as 'size - error - left'. That is also wrong in the size-query case: the generic_listxattr() contribution is only subtracted from 'left' when a buffer is present. Thus, the query result comes up short by exactly that contribution (e.g., "system.nfs4_acl" on a mount with ACL support), and a caller that allocates the returned size gets -ERANGE on the subsequent call. Declare 'left' as ssize_t, use a scratch copy to measure security hook consumption, and only decrement 'left' if a buffer is present. Fixes: f71ece9712b7 ("security,fs,nfs,net: update security_inode_listsecurity() interface") Suggested-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com> Signed-off-by: Achilles Gaikwad <achillesgaikwad@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com> Signed-off-by: Anna Schumaker <anna.schumaker@hammerspace.com>
-rw-r--r--fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c10
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c b/fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c
index 7d98e9a98580..5709c6fea85b 100644
--- a/fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c
+++ b/fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c
@@ -10596,7 +10596,8 @@ const struct nfs4_minor_version_ops *nfs_v4_minor_ops[] = {
static ssize_t nfs4_listxattr(struct dentry *dentry, char *list, size_t size)
{
ssize_t error, error2, error3;
- size_t left = size;
+ ssize_t left = size;
+ ssize_t left2;
error = generic_listxattr(dentry, list, left);
if (error < 0)
@@ -10606,10 +10607,13 @@ static ssize_t nfs4_listxattr(struct dentry *dentry, char *list, size_t size)
left -= error;
}
- error2 = security_inode_listsecurity(d_inode(dentry), &list, &left);
+ left2 = left;
+ error2 = security_inode_listsecurity(d_inode(dentry), &list, &left2);
if (error2 < 0)
return error2;
- error2 = size - error - left;
+ error2 = left - left2;
+ if (list)
+ left -= error2;
error3 = nfs4_listxattr_nfs4_user(d_inode(dentry), list, left);
if (error3 < 0)