[PATCH] notes: avoid potential use-after-free during insertion
On Sun, Aug 25, 2019 at 03:10:35AM -0400, Jeff King wrote:
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> Curiously, I think the existing case a few lines below your patch is
> wrong, though:
>
> ret = combine_notes(&l->val_oid,
> &entry->val_oid);
> if (!ret && is_null_oid(&l->val_oid))
> note_tree_remove(t, tree, n, entry);
> free(entry);
> return ret;
>
> If combining the notes fails, we'll free the entry and return an error
> code, and then load_subtree() will access the freed memory. I think we
> could just object_oid instead.
Here's a patch. It's textually independent of yours, but I think it makes sense to apply the two on a single branch.
No test, as I didn't bother to figure out what it takes to trigger the error message, and the solution is (hopefully) an obvious improvement even if it can't be triggered in practice.
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Subject: [PATCH] notes: avoid potential use-after-free during insertion
The note_tree_insert() function may free the leaf_node struct we pass in (e.g., if it's a duplicate, or if it needs to be combined with an existing note).
Most callers are happy with this, as they assume that ownership of the struct is handed off. But in load_subtree(), if we see an error we'll use the handed-off struct's key_oid to generate the die() message, potentially accessing freed memory.
We can easily fix this by instead using the original oid that we copied into the leaf_node struct.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
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notes.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
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diff --git a/notes.c b/notes.c
index 75c028b300..3477e8e554 100644
--- a/notes.c
+++ b/notes.c
@@ -453,17 +453,17 @@ static void load_subtree(struct notes_tree *t, struct leaf_node *subtree,
l = xcalloc(1, sizeof(*l));
oidcpy(&l->key_oid, &object_oid);
oidcpy(&l->val_oid, &entry.oid);
if (note_tree_insert(t, node, n, l, type,
combine_notes_concatenate))
die("Failed to load %s %s into notes tree "
"from %s",
type == PTR_TYPE_NOTE ? "note" : "subtree",
- oid_to_hex(&l->key_oid), t->ref);
+ oid_to_hex(&object_oid), t->ref);
continue;
handle_non_note:
/*
* Determine full path for this non-note entry. The
* filename is already found in entry.path, but the
* directory part of the path must be deduced from the
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Mike Hommey