6.12-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Max Kellermann max.kellermann@ionos.com
commit 550f7ca98ee028a606aa75705a7e77b1bd11720f upstream.
If the full path to be built by ceph_mdsc_build_path() happens to be longer than PATH_MAX, then this function will enter an endless (retry) loop, effectively blocking the whole task. Most of the machine becomes unusable, making this a very simple and effective DoS vulnerability.
I cannot imagine why this retry was ever implemented, but it seems rather useless and harmful to me. Let's remove it and fail with ENAMETOOLONG instead.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Reported-by: Dario Weißer dario@cure53.de Signed-off-by: Max Kellermann max.kellermann@ionos.com Reviewed-by: Alex Markuze amarkuze@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ilya Dryomov idryomov@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- fs/ceph/mds_client.c | 9 ++++----- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
--- a/fs/ceph/mds_client.c +++ b/fs/ceph/mds_client.c @@ -2808,12 +2808,11 @@ retry:
if (pos < 0) { /* - * A rename didn't occur, but somehow we didn't end up where - * we thought we would. Throw a warning and try again. + * The path is longer than PATH_MAX and this function + * cannot ever succeed. Creating paths that long is + * possible with Ceph, but Linux cannot use them. */ - pr_warn_client(cl, "did not end path lookup where expected (pos = %d)\n", - pos); - goto retry; + return ERR_PTR(-ENAMETOOLONG); }
*pbase = base;