From: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@netapp.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 05:42:26 +0000 (-0500)
Subject: [PATCH] Normal user can panic NFS client with direct I/O (CVE-2006-0555)
X-Git-Tag: v2.6.15.5~2
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=93e3d00a9f0158e522cada1088233fad23247882;p=thirdparty%2Fkernel%2Fstable.git

[PATCH] Normal user can panic NFS client with direct I/O (CVE-2006-0555)

This is CVE-2006-0555 and SGI bug 946529.  A normal user can panic an
NFS client and cause a local DoS with 'judicious'(?) use of O_DIRECT.

Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
---

diff --git a/fs/nfs/direct.c b/fs/nfs/direct.c
index 0792288176033..3ebb06e62c202 100644
--- a/fs/nfs/direct.c
+++ b/fs/nfs/direct.c
@@ -106,6 +106,11 @@ nfs_get_user_pages(int rw, unsigned long user_addr, size_t size,
 		result = get_user_pages(current, current->mm, user_addr,
 					page_count, (rw == READ), 0,
 					*pages, NULL);
+		if (result >= 0 && result < page_count) {
+			nfs_free_user_pages(*pages, result, 0);
+			*pages = NULL;
+			result = -EFAULT;
+		}
 		up_read(&current->mm->mmap_sem);
 	}
 	return result;