s3: Fix bug 8360

OS/2 sends an unexpected write&x/read&x chain

Autobuild-User: Volker Lendecke <vlendec@samba.org>
Autobuild-Date: Sun Aug 14 08:48:58 CEST 2011 on sn-devel-104

diff --git a/source3/smbd/process.c b/source3/smbd/process.c
index f542dcd84f34ad500ce3c6ed4b57d002298828b2..6d391df4e0573ec790e20585cf0380c110e0556c 100644 (file)
--- a/source3/smbd/process.c
+++ b/source3/smbd/process.c
@@ -2025,15 +2025,24 @@ void chain_reply(struct smb_request *req)
        SMB_PERFCOUNT_SET_MSGLEN_IN(&req->pcd, smblen);
 
        /*
-        * Check if the client tries to fool us. The request so far uses the
-        * space to the end of the byte buffer in the request just
-        * processed. The chain_offset can't point into that area. If that was
-        * the case, we could end up with an endless processing of the chain,
-        * we would always handle the same request.
+        * Check if the client tries to fool us. The chain offset
+        * needs to point beyond the current request in the chain, it
+        * needs to strictly grow. Otherwise we might be tricked into
+        * an endless loop always processing the same request over and
+        * over again. We used to assume that vwv and the byte buffer
+        * array in a chain are always attached, but OS/2 the
+        * Write&X/Read&X chain puts the Read&X vwv array right behind
+        * the Write&X vwv chain. The Write&X bcc array is put behind
+        * the Read&X vwv array. So now we check whether the chain
+        * offset points strictly behind the previous vwv
+        * array. req->buf points right after the vwv array of the
+        * previous request. See
+        * https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8360 for more
+        * information.
         */
 
-       already_used = PTR_DIFF(req->buf+req->buflen, smb_base(req->inbuf));
-       if (chain_offset < already_used) {
+       already_used = PTR_DIFF(req->buf, smb_base(req->inbuf));
+       if (chain_offset <= already_used) {
                goto error;
        }