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authorEnzo Matsumiya <ematsumiya@suse.de>2026-04-13 22:07:06 +0300
committerSteve French <stfrench@microsoft.com>2026-04-22 17:55:26 +0300
commit4c221711b23745e2fb961ee517e9ed96ce76f9cb (patch)
tree50fead7923b5f343f6b3d0fb48184c90f9fd37a7
parenta55a60886e612bedb0e9a402ba0dca544c4c6a51 (diff)
downloadlinux-4c221711b23745e2fb961ee517e9ed96ce76f9cb.tar.xz
smb: client: compress: fix buffer overrun in lz77_compress()
@dst buffer is allocated with same size as @src, which, for good compression cases, works fine. However, when compression goes bad (e.g. random bytes payloads), the compressed size can increase significantly, and even by stopping the main loop at 7/8 of @slen, writing leftover literals could write past the end of @dst because of LZ77 metadata. To fix this, add lz77_compressed_alloc_size() helper to compute the correct allocation size for @dst, accounting for metadata and worst cast scenario (all literals). While this is overprovisioning memory, it's not only correct, but also allows lz77_compress() main loop to run without ever checking @dst limits (i.e. a perf improvement). Signed-off-by: Enzo Matsumiya <ematsumiya@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Steve French <stfrench@microsoft.com>
-rw-r--r--fs/smb/client/compress.c6
-rw-r--r--fs/smb/client/compress/lz77.c14
-rw-r--r--fs/smb/client/compress/lz77.h28
3 files changed, 33 insertions, 15 deletions
diff --git a/fs/smb/client/compress.c b/fs/smb/client/compress.c
index 3d1e73f5d9af..be9023f841e6 100644
--- a/fs/smb/client/compress.c
+++ b/fs/smb/client/compress.c
@@ -329,11 +329,7 @@ int smb_compress(struct TCP_Server_Info *server, struct smb_rqst *rq, compress_s
goto err_free;
}
- /*
- * This is just overprovisioning, as the algorithm will error out if @dst reaches 7/8
- * of @slen.
- */
- dlen = slen;
+ dlen = lz77_compressed_alloc_size(slen);
dst = kvzalloc(dlen, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!dst) {
ret = -ENOMEM;
diff --git a/fs/smb/client/compress/lz77.c b/fs/smb/client/compress/lz77.c
index cdd6b53766b0..c1e7fada6e61 100644
--- a/fs/smb/client/compress/lz77.c
+++ b/fs/smb/client/compress/lz77.c
@@ -137,6 +137,10 @@ noinline int lz77_compress(const void *src, u32 slen, void *dst, u32 *dlen)
long flag = 0;
u64 *htable;
+ /* This is probably a bug, so throw a warning. */
+ if (WARN_ON_ONCE(*dlen < lz77_compressed_alloc_size(slen)))
+ return -EINVAL;
+
srcp = src;
end = src + slen;
dstp = dst;
@@ -180,15 +184,6 @@ noinline int lz77_compress(const void *src, u32 slen, void *dst, u32 *dlen)
continue;
}
- /*
- * Bail out if @dstp reached >= 7/8 of @slen -- already compressed badly, not worth
- * going further.
- */
- if (unlikely(dstp - dst >= slen - (slen >> 3))) {
- *dlen = slen;
- goto out;
- }
-
dstp = lz77_write_match(dstp, &nib, dist, len);
srcp += len;
@@ -225,7 +220,6 @@ noinline int lz77_compress(const void *src, u32 slen, void *dst, u32 *dlen)
lz77_write32(flag_pos, flag);
*dlen = dstp - dst;
-out:
kvfree(htable);
if (*dlen < slen)
diff --git a/fs/smb/client/compress/lz77.h b/fs/smb/client/compress/lz77.h
index cdcb191b48a2..2603eab9e071 100644
--- a/fs/smb/client/compress/lz77.h
+++ b/fs/smb/client/compress/lz77.h
@@ -11,5 +11,33 @@
#include <linux/kernel.h>
+/**
+ * lz77_compressed_alloc_size() - Compute compressed buffer size.
+ * @size: uncompressed (src) size
+ *
+ * Compute allocation size for the compressed buffer based on uncompressed size.
+ * Accounts for metadata and overprovision for the worst case scenario.
+ *
+ * LZ77 metadata is a 4-byte flag that is written:
+ * - on dst begin (pos 0)
+ * - every 32 literals or matches
+ * - on end-of-stream (possibly, if last write was another flag)
+ *
+ * Worst case scenario is an all-literal compression, which means:
+ * metadata bytes = 4 + ((@size / 32) * 4) + 4, or, simplified, (@size >> 3) + 8
+ *
+ * The worst case scenario rarely happens, but such overprovisioning also allows lz77_compress()
+ * main loop to run without ever bound checking dst, which is a huge perf improvement, while also
+ * being safe when compression goes bad.
+ *
+ * Return: required (*) allocation size for compressed buffer.
+ *
+ * (*) checked once in the beginning of lz77_compress()
+ */
+static __always_inline u32 lz77_compressed_alloc_size(const u32 size)
+{
+ return size + (size >> 3) + 8;
+}
+
int lz77_compress(const void *src, u32 slen, void *dst, u32 *dlen);
#endif /* _SMB_COMPRESS_LZ77_H */