CVE-2015-0275 (published 2015-10-19T10:59Z)

The ext4_zero_range function in fs/ext4/extents.c in the Linux kernel before 4.1 allows local users to cause a denial of service (BUG) via a crafted fallocate zero-range request.

Severity: MEDIUM
CVSS v2 base score: 4.9 (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)

Weakness information:
cwe_id: CWE-17
cwe_name: DEPRECATED: Code
description: This entry has been deprecated.  It was originally used for organizing the Development View (CWE-699) and some other views, but it introduced unnecessary complexity and depth to the resulting tree.

Fix information:
repo_url: https://github.com/torvalds/linux
commit_details: repo_url: https://github.com/torvalds/linux
author: Lukas Czerner
author_date: 2015-04-03 00:09:13-04:00
msg: ext4: allocate entire range in zero range

Currently there is a bug in zero range code which causes zero range
calls to only allocate block aligned portion of the range, while
ignoring the rest in some cases.

In some cases, namely if the end of the range is past i_size, we do
attempt to preallocate the last nonaligned block. However this might
cause kernel to BUG() in some carefully designed zero range requests
on setups where page size > block size.

Fix this problem by first preallocating the entire range, including
the nonaligned edges and converting the written extents to unwritten
in the next step. This approach will also give us the advantage of
having the range to be as linearly contiguous as possible.

Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
repository: repo_url: https://github.com/torvalds/linux
repo_name: torvalds/linux
description: Linux kernel source tree
repo_language: C
owner: torvalds
file_changes: filename: extents.c
change_type: ModificationType.MODIFY
diff: @@ -4797,12 +4797,6 @@ static long ext4_zero_range(struct file *file, loff_t offset,
 	else
 		max_blocks -= lblk;
 
-	flags = EXT4_GET_BLOCKS_CREATE_UNWRIT_EXT |
-		EXT4_GET_BLOCKS_CONVERT_UNWRITTEN |
-		EXT4_EX_NOCACHE;
-	if (mode & FALLOC_FL_KEEP_SIZE)
-		flags |= EXT4_GET_BLOCKS_KEEP_SIZE;
-
 	mutex_lock(&inode->i_mutex);
 
 	/*
@@ -4819,15 +4813,28 @@ static long ext4_zero_range(struct file *file, loff_t offset,
 		ret = inode_newsize_ok(inode, new_size);
 		if (ret)
 			goto out_mutex;
-		/*
-		 * If we have a partial block after EOF we have to allocate
-		 * the entire block.
-		 */
-		if (partial_end)
-			max_blocks += 1;
 	}
 
+	flags = EXT4_GET_BLOCKS_CREATE_UNWRIT_EXT;
+	if (mode & FALLOC_FL_KEEP_SIZE)
+		flags |= EXT4_GET_BLOCKS_KEEP_SIZE;
+
+	/* Preallocate the range including the unaligned edges */
+	if (partial_begin || partial_end) {
+		ret = ext4_alloc_file_blocks(file,
+				round_down(offset, 1 << blkbits) >> blkbits,
+				(round_up((offset + len), 1 << blkbits) -
+				 round_down(offset, 1 << blkbits)) >> blkbits,
+				new_size, flags, mode);
+		if (ret)
+			goto out_mutex;
+
+	}
+
+	/* Zero range excluding the unaligned edges */
 	if (max_blocks > 0) {
+		flags |= (EXT4_GET_BLOCKS_CONVERT_UNWRITTEN |
+			  EXT4_EX_NOCACHE);
 
 		/* Now release the pages and zero block aligned part of pages*/
 		truncate_pagecache_range(inode, start, end - 1);

programming_language: C