2014-01-27 David Sterba <dsterba@xxxxxxx>:
> On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 02:28:30PM +0100, Gerhard Heift wrote:
>> --- a/fs/btrfs/ioctl.c
>> +++ b/fs/btrfs/ioctl.c
>> @@ -2032,6 +2032,52 @@ static noinline int btrfs_ioctl_tree_search(struct file *file,
>> return ret;
>> }
>>
>> +static noinline int btrfs_ioctl_tree_search_v2(struct file *file,
>> + void __user *argp)
>> +{
>> + struct btrfs_ioctl_search_args_v2 *args;
>> + struct inode *inode;
>> + int ret;
>> + char *buf;
>> + size_t buf_size;
>> +
>> + if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
>> + return -EPERM;
>> +
>> + /* copy search header and buffer size */
>> + args = memdup_user(argp, sizeof(*args));
>> + if (IS_ERR(args))
>> + return PTR_ERR(args);
>> +
>> + buf_size = args->buf_size;
>> +
>> + if (buf_size < sizeof(struct btrfs_ioctl_search_header)) {
>> + kfree(args);
>> + return -ENOMEM;
>
> ENOMEM does not seem correct here, it's not a memory allocation failure
> but rather an underflow of the buffer size, possibly EINVAL or EOVERFLOW
> as the other checks return.
Saw this to during the rewrite, fixed it for the new version.
>> + }
>> +
>> + /* limit memory */
>> + if (buf_size > PAGE_SIZE * 32)
>> + buf_size = PAGE_SIZE * 32;
>> +
>> + buf = memdup_user(argp->buf, buf_size);
>
> Memory allocations are not that easy, getting a contiguous 32 * 4k = 128k
> buffer may often fail. And the point of the V2 ioctl was to avoid
> allocating the buffer, and do copy_to_user directly.
>
> Also, you remove this code in the next patch, I don't think this level
> of patch granularity is necessary.
In the new version I do it the other way around, first direct copy,
then the new ioctl, so this is not necessary any more.
>> + if (IS_ERR(buf)) {
>> + kfree(args);
>> + return PTR_ERR(buf);
>> + }
>> +
>> + inode = file_inode(file);
>> + ret = search_ioctl(inode, &args->key, buf_size, buf);
>> + if (ret == 0 && (
>> + copy_to_user(argp, args, sizeof(*args)) ||
>> + copy_to_user(argp->buf, buf, buf_size)
>> + ))
>> + ret = -EFAULT;
>> + kfree(buf);
>> + kfree(args);
>> + return ret;
>> +}
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