Re: fs: hfs: Possible issue with increment of extent

From: Colin Ian King
Date: Fri Aug 31 2018 - 09:56:50 EST


On 31/08/18 14:56, Al Viro wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 31, 2018 at 02:39:11PM +0100, Colin Ian King wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Static analysis has picked up a potential issue with an out of bounds
>> read in fs/hfs/extent.c; the following for-loop in hfs_free_fork()
>> increments i and also extent while also reading extent[i].count. This
>> looks incorrect to me, I think the increment of extent is not needed:
>>
>> for (i = 0; i < 3; extent++, i++)
>> blocks += be16_to_cpu(extent[i].count);
>>
>> res = hfs_free_extents(sb, extent, blocks, blocks);
>>
>> I'm not familiar enough with the code to conclude that removing the
>> increment of extent is necessary a correct fix just in case I'm missing
>> something subtle here.
>
> Goes back to commit d1081202f1d0 (in bk-to-git historical tree)
> Author: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx>
> Date: Wed Feb 25 16:17:36 2004 -0800
>
> [PATCH] HFS rewrite
>
> From: Roman Zippel <zippel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> and it's almost certainly a bug in there, judging by the code nearby...
>
OK, I'll send a fix then.

Colin