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[PATCH 4.4 07/32] sysfs: be careful of error returns from ops->show()

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4.4-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>

commit c8a139d001a1aab1ea8734db14b22dac9dd143b6 upstream.

ops->show() can return a negative error code.
Commit 65da3484d9be ("sysfs: correctly handle short reads on PREALLOC attrs.")
(in v4.4) caused this to be stored in an unsigned 'size_t' variable, so errors
would look like large numbers.
As a result, if an error is returned, sysfs_kf_read() will return the
value of 'count', typically 4096.

Commit 17d0774f8068 ("sysfs: correctly handle read offset on PREALLOC attrs")
(in v4.8) extended this error to use the unsigned large 'len' as a size for
memmove().
Consequently, if ->show returns an error, then the first read() on the
sysfs file will return 4096 and could return uninitialized memory to
user-space.
If the application performs a subsequent read, this will trigger a memmove()
with extremely large count, and is likely to crash the machine is bizarre ways.

This bug can currently only be triggered by reading from an md
sysfs attribute declared with __ATTR_PREALLOC() during the
brief period between when mddev_put() deletes an mddev from
the ->all_mddevs list, and when mddev_delayed_delete() - which is
scheduled on a workqueue - completes.
Before this, an error won't be returned by the ->show()
After this, the ->show() won't be called.

I can reproduce it reliably only by putting delay like
	usleep_range(500000,700000);
early in mddev_delayed_delete(). Then after creating an
md device md0 run
  echo clear > /sys/block/md0/md/array_state; cat /sys/block/md0/md/array_state

The bug can be triggered without the usleep.

Fixes: 65da3484d9be ("sysfs: correctly handle short reads on PREALLOC attrs.")
Fixes: 17d0774f8068 ("sysfs: correctly handle read offset on PREALLOC attrs")
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reported-and-tested-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 fs/sysfs/file.c |    6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/fs/sysfs/file.c
+++ b/fs/sysfs/file.c
@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ static ssize_t sysfs_kf_read(struct kern
 {
 	const struct sysfs_ops *ops = sysfs_file_ops(of->kn);
 	struct kobject *kobj = of->kn->parent->priv;
-	size_t len;
+	ssize_t len;
 
 	/*
 	 * If buf != of->prealloc_buf, we don't know how
@@ -117,13 +117,15 @@ static ssize_t sysfs_kf_read(struct kern
 	if (WARN_ON_ONCE(buf != of->prealloc_buf))
 		return 0;
 	len = ops->show(kobj, of->kn->priv, buf);
+	if (len < 0)
+		return len;
 	if (pos) {
 		if (len <= pos)
 			return 0;
 		len -= pos;
 		memmove(buf, buf + pos, len);
 	}
-	return min(count, len);
+	return min_t(ssize_t, count, len);
 }
 
 /* kernfs write callback for regular sysfs files */

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