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Patch "hv: kvp: Avoid reading past allocated blocks from KVP file" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

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This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

hv: kvp: Avoid reading past allocated blocks from KVP file

to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
hv-kvp-avoid-reading-past-allocated-blocks-from-kvp-file.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

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From 297d6b6e56c2977fc504c61bbeeaa21296923f89 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: Paul Meyer <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2017 13:06:47 -0700
Subject: hv: kvp: Avoid reading past allocated blocks from KVP file

From: Paul Meyer <[email protected]>

commit 297d6b6e56c2977fc504c61bbeeaa21296923f89 upstream.

While reading in more than one block (50) of KVP records, the allocation goes per block, but the reads used the total number of allocated records (without resetting the pointer/stream). This causes the records buffer to overrun when the refresh reads more than one block over the previous capacity (e.g. reading more than 100 KVP records whereas the in-memory database was empty before).

Fix this by reading the correct number of KVP records from file each time.

---
 tools/hv/hv_kvp_daemon.c |   70 +++++++++--------------------------------------
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 56 deletions(-)
tools/hv/hv_kvp_daemon.c +14 -56
@@ -193,11 +193,14 @@ static void kvp_update_mem_state(int poo
 	for (;;) {
 		readp = &record[records_read];
 		records_read += fread(readp, sizeof(struct kvp_record),
-					ENTRIES_PER_BLOCK * num_blocks,
-					filep);
+				ENTRIES_PER_BLOCK * num_blocks - records_read,
+				filep);
 
 		if (ferror(filep)) {
-			syslog(LOG_ERR, "Failed to read file, pool: %d", pool);
+			syslog(LOG_ERR,
+				"Failed to read file, pool: %d; error: %d %s",
+				 pool, errno, strerror(errno));
+			kvp_release_lock(pool);
 			exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
 		}
 
@@ -210,6 +213,7 @@ static void kvp_update_mem_state(int poo
 
 			if (record == NULL) {
 				syslog(LOG_ERR, "malloc failed");
+				kvp_release_lock(pool);
 				exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
 			}
 			continue;
@@ -224,15 +228,11 @@ static void kvp_update_mem_state(int poo
 	fclose(filep);
 	kvp_release_lock(pool);
 }
+
 static int kvp_file_init(void)
 {
 	int  fd;
-	FILE *filep;
-	size_t records_read;
 	char *fname;
-	struct kvp_record *record;
-	struct kvp_record *readp;
-	int num_blocks;
 	int i;
 	int alloc_unit = sizeof(struct kvp_record) * ENTRIES_PER_BLOCK;
 
@@ -246,61 +246,19 @@ static int kvp_file_init(void)
 
 	for (i = 0; i < KVP_POOL_COUNT; i++) {
 		fname = kvp_file_info[i].fname;
-		records_read = 0;
-		num_blocks = 1;
 		sprintf(fname, "%s/.kvp_pool_%d", KVP_CONFIG_LOC, i);
 		fd = open(fname, O_RDWR | O_CREAT | O_CLOEXEC, 0644 /* rw-r--r-- */);
 
 		if (fd == -1)
 			return 1;
 
-
-		filep = fopen(fname, "re");
-		if (!filep) {
-			close(fd);
-			return 1;
-		}
-
-		record = malloc(alloc_unit * num_blocks);
-		if (record == NULL) {
-			fclose(filep);
-			close(fd);
-			return 1;
-		}
-		for (;;) {
-			readp = &record[records_read];
-			records_read += fread(readp, sizeof(struct kvp_record),
-					ENTRIES_PER_BLOCK,
-					filep);
-
-			if (ferror(filep)) {
-				syslog(LOG_ERR, "Failed to read file, pool: %d",
-				       i);
-				exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
-			}
-
-			if (!feof(filep)) {
-				/*
-				 * We have more data to read.
-				 */
-				num_blocks++;
-				record = realloc(record, alloc_unit *
-						num_blocks);
-				if (record == NULL) {
-					fclose(filep);
-					close(fd);
-					return 1;
-				}
-				continue;
-			}
-			break;
-		}
 		kvp_file_info[i].fd = fd;
-		kvp_file_info[i].num_blocks = num_blocks;
-		kvp_file_info[i].records = record;
-		kvp_file_info[i].num_records = records_read;
-		fclose(filep);
-
+		kvp_file_info[i].num_blocks = 1;
+		kvp_file_info[i].records = malloc(alloc_unit);
+		if (kvp_file_info[i].records == NULL)
+			return 1;
+		kvp_file_info[i].num_records = 0;
+		kvp_update_mem_state(i);
 	}
 
 	return 0;

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.9/hv-kvp-avoid-reading-past-allocated-blocks-from-kvp-file.patch