Bug 1263056 - libgfapi: brick process crashes if attr KEY length > 255 for glfs_lgetxattr(...)
Summary: libgfapi: brick process crashes if attr KEY length > 255 for glfs_lgetxattr(...)
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: GlusterFS
Classification: Community
Component: libgfapi
Version: mainline
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Assignee: Jiffin
QA Contact: Sudhir D
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Blocks: 1272926 1272929
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Reported: 2015-09-15 04:10 UTC by Milind Changire
Modified: 2016-06-16 13:36 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

Fixed In Version: glusterfs-3.8rc2
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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: 1272926 1272929 (view as bug list)
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Last Closed: 2016-06-16 13:36:54 UTC
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Description Milind Changire 2015-09-15 04:10:57 UTC
Description of problem:
When testing integration with bareos backup/restore application, it was noticed that the brick process, glusterfsd terminates with a core dump. Random attribute key values having length greater than 255 consistent caused glusterfsd to crash while servicing a call to glfs_lgetxattr() function.

Input validation seems to be missing in libgfapi.


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Comment 1 Soumya Koduri 2015-09-15 12:20:01 UTC
Could you provide core(bt), logs and the steps to reproduce the issue.

Comment 2 Milind Changire 2015-09-15 16:47:57 UTC
Actually I faced a stack corruption problem while testing integration with a backup-restore application called bareos.

There has been some root cause analysis by Raghavendra G and Poornima G and it was concluded that although the VFS doesn't allow operations on xattr keys > 255 in length via getfattr command and the keys don't reach the server, there isn't any validation in the libgfapi at least for this specific criteria for this specific API.

Poornima G also attempted to get/set xattr via api/examples/glfsxmp.c with a key > 255 length and had a different outcome. Please consult her for more info.

Here's the uncommitted patch of the fix for reference:

diff --git a/api/src/glfs-fops.c b/api/src/glfs-fops.c
index ff85f7b..2d7a23c 100644
--- a/api/src/glfs-fops.c
+++ b/api/src/glfs-fops.c
@@ -2853,6 +2853,12 @@ glfs_getxattr_common (struct glfs *fs, const char *path, const char *name,
                errno = EIO;
                goto out;
        }
+
+        if (strlen(name) > 255) {
+                ret = -1;
+                errno = EINVAL;
+                goto out;
+        }
 retry:
        if (follow)
                ret = glfs_resolve (fs, subvol, path, &loc, &iatt, reval);

Comment 3 Jiffin 2015-09-22 12:45:13 UTC
Can u send out fix on upstream and change the status of the bug accordingly.

Comment 4 Milind Changire 2015-09-22 13:14:06 UTC
Gerrit review for upstream master available at:
http://review.gluster.org/#/c/12207/

Comment 5 Vijay Bellur 2015-10-29 15:22:30 UTC
REVIEW: http://review.gluster.org/12462 (gfapi: function exit should use __GLFS_EXIT_FS) posted (#1) for review on master by Milind Changire (mchangir)

Comment 6 Niels de Vos 2016-06-16 13:36:54 UTC
This bug is getting closed because a release has been made available that should address the reported issue. In case the problem is still not fixed with glusterfs-3.8.0, please open a new bug report.

glusterfs-3.8.0 has been announced on the Gluster mailinglists [1], packages for several distributions should become available in the near future. Keep an eye on the Gluster Users mailinglist [2] and the update infrastructure for your distribution.

[1] http://blog.gluster.org/2016/06/glusterfs-3-8-released/
[2] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.file-systems.gluster.user


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