Perhaps this is simpler, and preferable. Thanks to adilger for
reminding me about printk_ratelimit. :)
----
This attempts to address CVE-2006-6058
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-6058
first reported at http://projects.info-pull.com/mokb/MOKB-17-11-2006.html
Essentially a corrupted minix dir inode reporting a very large
i_size will loop for a very long time in minix_readdir, minix_find_entry,
etc, because on EIO they just move on to try the next page. This is
under the BKL, printk-storming as well. This can lock up the machine
for a very long time. Simply ratelimiting the printks gets things back
under control.
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <[email protected]>
Index: linux-2.6.22-rc4/fs/minix/itree_v1.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.22-rc4.orig/fs/minix/itree_v1.c
+++ linux-2.6.22-rc4/fs/minix/itree_v1.c
@@ -27,7 +27,8 @@ static int block_to_path(struct inode *
if (block < 0) {
printk("minix_bmap: block<0\n");
} else if (block >= (minix_sb(inode->i_sb)->s_max_size/BLOCK_SIZE)) {
- printk("minix_bmap: block>big\n");
+ if (printk_ratelimit())
+ printk("minix_bmap: block>big\n");
} else if (block < 7) {
offsets[n++] = block;
} else if ((block -= 7) < 512) {
Index: linux-2.6.22-rc4/fs/minix/itree_v2.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.22-rc4.orig/fs/minix/itree_v2.c
+++ linux-2.6.22-rc4/fs/minix/itree_v2.c
@@ -28,7 +28,8 @@ static int block_to_path(struct inode *
if (block < 0) {
printk("minix_bmap: block<0\n");
} else if (block >= (minix_sb(inode->i_sb)->s_max_size/sb->s_blocksize)) {
- printk("minix_bmap: block>big\n");
+ if (printk_ratelimit())
+ printk("minix_bmap: block>big\n");
} else if (block < 7) {
offsets[n++] = block;
} else if ((block -= 7) < 256) {
-
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