[dm-devel] [PATCH] dm-snapshot: fix a crash with transient storage and zero chunk size

[Mikulas Patocka]

The following commands will crash the kernel:

modprobe brd rd_size=1048576
dmsetup create o --table "0 `blockdev --getsize /dev/ram0` snapshot-origin /dev/ram0"
dmsetup create s --table "0 `blockdev --getsize /dev/ram0` snapshot /dev/ram0 /dev/ram1 N 0"

The reason is that when we test for zero chunk size, we jump to the label
bad_read_metadata without setting the "r" variable. The function
snapshot_ctr destroys all the structures and then exits with "r == 0". The
kernel then crashes because it falsely believes that snapshot_ctr
succeeded.

In order to fix the bug, we set the variable "r" to -EINVAL.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka at redhat.com>
Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org

Index: linux-2.6/drivers/md/dm-snap.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/drivers/md/dm-snap.c
+++ linux-2.6/drivers/md/dm-snap.c
@@ -1408,6 +1408,7 @@ static int snapshot_ctr(struct dm_target
 
 	if (!s->store->chunk_size) {
 		ti->error = "Chunk size not set";
+		r = -EINVAL;
 		goto bad_read_metadata;
 	}