[kernel] Fix dentry hash collisions that prevented boot with selinux enabled (rhbz 805371)

Dave Jones davej at fedoraproject.org
Thu Mar 22 20:54:44 UTC 2012


commit d51e1d2d42cc453e6ead348f83c478d6e75f0a5c
Author: Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com>
Date:   Thu Mar 22 16:54:31 2012 -0400

    Fix dentry hash collisions that prevented boot with selinux enabled (rhbz 805371)

 fix-dentry-hash.patch |  113 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 kernel.spec           |    7 +++
 2 files changed, 120 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/fix-dentry-hash.patch b/fix-dentry-hash.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c5b2f47
--- /dev/null
+++ b/fix-dentry-hash.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,113 @@
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+From: Al Viro <viro at ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
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+On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 08:24:45PM +0000, Al Viro wrote:
+> 
+> OK, full_name_hash()/hash_name() definitely have a mismatch and it's on the
+> names of length 8*n: trivial experiment shows that we have
+> name hash_name full_name_hash
+> a 61 61
+> ab 6261 6261
+> abc 636261 636261
+> abcd 64636261 64636261
+> abcdabc 64c6c4c2 64c6c4c2
+> abcdabcd efcead5 c8c6c4c2
+> abcdabcd9 efceb0e efceb0e
+> 
+> Linus, which way do you prefer to shift it?  Should hash_name() change to
+> match full_name_hash() or should it be the other way round?
+> 
+> What happens is that you get multiplication by 9 and adding 0 in the former,
+> after having added the last full word.  In the latter we add the last full
+> word, see that there's nothing left and bugger off.
+
+Guys, could you check if this fixes it?
+
+diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c
+index 13e6a1f..7451d6f8 100644
+--- a/fs/namei.c
++++ b/fs/namei.c
+@@ -1439,10 +1439,10 @@ unsigned int full_name_hash(const unsigned char *name, unsigned int len)
+ 
+ 	for (;;) {
+ 		a = *(unsigned long *)name;
+-		hash *= 9;
+ 		if (len < sizeof(unsigned long))
+ 			break;
+ 		hash += a;
++		hash *= 9;
+ 		name += sizeof(unsigned long);
+ 		len -= sizeof(unsigned long);
+ 		if (!len)
+--
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diff --git a/kernel.spec b/kernel.spec
index f4fea4b..5abf407 100644
--- a/kernel.spec
+++ b/kernel.spec
@@ -766,6 +766,8 @@ Patch21400: unhandled-irqs-switch-to-polling.patch
 
 Patch22000: weird-root-dentry-name-debug.patch
 
+Patch23000: fix-dentry-hash.patch
+
 %endif
 
 BuildRoot: %{_tmppath}/kernel-%{KVERREL}-root
@@ -1473,6 +1475,8 @@ ApplyPatch unhandled-irqs-switch-to-polling.patch
 
 ApplyPatch weird-root-dentry-name-debug.patch
 
+ApplyPatch fix-dentry-hash.patch
+
 #rhbz 803809 CVE-2012-1179
 ApplyPatch mm-thp-fix-pmd_bad-triggering.patch
 
@@ -2332,6 +2336,9 @@ fi
 #                 ||----w |
 #                 ||     ||
 %changelog
+* Thu Mar 22 2012 Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com>
+- Fix dentry hash collisions that prevented boot with selinux enabled (rhbz 805371)
+
 * Thu Mar 22 2012 Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com> 3.4.0-0.rc0.git1.1
 - Linux v3.3-4074-g5375871
 


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