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wpaul 97f50d063c Fix a condition where nfs_statfs() can precipitate a panic. There is
code that says this:

        nfsm_request(vp, NFSPROC_FSSTAT, p, cred);
        if (v3)
                nfsm_postop_attr(vp, retattr);
        if (!error)
                nfsm_dissect(sfp, struct nfs_statfs *, NFSX_STATFS(v3));

The problem here is that if error != 0, nfsm_dissect() will not be
called, which leaves sfp == NULL. But nfs_statfs() does not bail out
at this point: it continues processing until it tries to dereference
sfp, which causes a panic. I was able to generate this crash under
the following conditions:

1) Set up a machine as an NFS server and NFS client, with amd running
   (using NIS maps). /usr/local is exported, though any exported fs
   can can be used to trigger the bug.
2) Log in as normal user, with home directory mounted from a SunOS 4.1.3
   NFS server via amd (along with a few other NFS filesystems from same
   machine).
3) Su to root and type the following:
   # mount localhost:/usr/local /mnt
   # df

To fix the panic, I changed the code to read:

        if (!error) {
                nfsm_dissect(sfp, struct nfs_statfs *, NFSX_STATFS(v3));
        } else
                goto nfsmout;

This is a bit kludgy in that nfsmout is a label defined by the nfsm_subs.h
macros, but these macros are themselves more than a little kludgy. This
stops the machine from crashing, but does not fix the overall bug: 'error'
somehow becomes 5 (EIO) when a statfs() is performed on the locally mounted
NFS filesystem. This seems to only happen the first time the filesystem
is accesed: on subsequent accesses, it seems to work fine again.

Now, I know there's no practical use in mounting a local filesystem
via NFS, but doing it shouldn't cause the system to melt down.
1997-06-27 19:10:46 +00:00
bin Document the use of `ls -lo' to see flags. 1997-06-24 06:57:11 +00:00
contrib This commit was generated by cvs2svn to compensate for changes in r26971, 1997-06-27 07:25:32 +00:00
crypto Bring in the Starter files for the contrib-crypto dir. 1997-05-03 09:16:07 +00:00
eBones Replace random() by arc4random() since random() can't be used 1997-06-14 04:05:01 +00:00
etc Comment out rc.conf picking by default 1997-06-25 15:15:13 +00:00
games Show the real revision date and not the date that this 1997-06-23 04:03:49 +00:00
gnu Don't depend upon the user structure having been aligned on a 8 KB boundary. 1997-06-27 15:48:22 +00:00
include merge in bind-4.9.6 changes (only effect is __res_send #define reverted) 1997-06-27 08:32:38 +00:00
lib Dynamically size fd_set in select rather than fail if too many files 1997-06-27 13:00:51 +00:00
libexec Submitted by: Gene Stark and Robert Sexton (robert@kudra.com) 1997-06-24 03:52:15 +00:00
lkm Take the OS release string from the kernel variable `osrelease' 1997-06-24 12:43:18 +00:00
release YAMF22 1997-06-24 23:08:18 +00:00
sbin Display tickadj in struct clockinfo. 1997-06-24 18:23:32 +00:00
secure Revert $FreeBSD$ to $Id$ 1997-02-22 14:40:44 +00:00
share Add new variable USE_PERL5. It is similar to USE_GMAKE, except that 1997-06-24 07:16:21 +00:00
sys Fix a condition where nfs_statfs() can precipitate a panic. There is 1997-06-27 19:10:46 +00:00
tools Some helpful improvements : 1997-06-10 01:53:01 +00:00
usr.bin Replace hand-made tolower conversions with real tolower from ctype 1997-06-27 10:21:22 +00:00
usr.sbin Revive this file, it's come back from the dead in the 8.8.x dists. 1997-06-27 15:55:33 +00:00
COPYRIGHT
Makefile Remove sgml stuff from the build-tools target. It is no longer used 1997-06-08 15:04:06 +00:00
README Revert $FreeBSD$ to $Id$ 1997-02-23 09:21:14 +00:00

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