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authorPádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com>2015-07-07 01:46:54 +0100
committerPádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com>2015-07-07 03:26:58 +0100
commit5e5d454037df549cc914f45891957181aa3b0a45 (patch)
treec38655200dc8b738328205b4326f2e129d6b89b1 /src/shred.c
parentc5ff0d989ffbb16273776092a10553108f269d85 (diff)
downloadcoreutils-5e5d454037df549cc914f45891957181aa3b0a45.tar.xz
shred: fix pattern selection for certain iteration counts
This was detected in about 25% of runs with gcc -fsanitize=address ERROR: AddressSanitizer: global-buffer-overflow on address ... READ of size 4 at 0x000000416628 thread T0 #0 0x40479f in genpattern src/shred.c:782 #1 0x4050d9 in do_wipefd src/shred.c:921 #2 0x406203 in wipefile src/shred.c:1175 #3 0x406b84 in main src/shred.c:1316 #4 0x7f3454a1ef9f in __libc_start_main (/lib64/libc.so.6+0x1ff9f) #5 0x4025d8 (/tmp/coreutils-8.23/src/shred+0x4025d8) 0x000000416628 is located 56 bytes to the left of global variable '*.LC49' from 'src/shred.c' (0x416660) of size 17 0x000000416628 is located 12 bytes to the right of global variable 'patterns' from 'src/shred.c' (0x416540) of size 220 SUMMARY: AddressSanitizer: global-buffer-overflow src/shred.c:782 * src/shred.c (gen_patterns): Restrict pattern selection to the K available, which regressed due to v5.92-1462-g65533e1. * tests/misc/shred-passes.sh: Add a deterministic test case. * NEWS: Mention the bug fix. Fixes http://bugs.gnu.org/20998
Diffstat (limited to 'src/shred.c')
-rw-r--r--src/shred.c5
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/src/shred.c b/src/shred.c
index 63bcd6fc5..52c93ef61 100644
--- a/src/shred.c
+++ b/src/shred.c
@@ -712,7 +712,7 @@ static int const
12, 0x111, 0x222, 0x333, 0x444, 0x666, 0x777,
0x888, 0x999, 0xBBB, 0xCCC, 0xDDD, 0xEEE, /* 4-bit */
-1, /* 1 random pass */
- /* The following patterns have the frst bit per block flipped */
+ /* The following patterns have the first bit per block flipped */
8, 0x1000, 0x1249, 0x1492, 0x16DB, 0x1924, 0x1B6D, 0x1DB6, 0x1FFF,
14, 0x1111, 0x1222, 0x1333, 0x1444, 0x1555, 0x1666, 0x1777,
0x1888, 0x1999, 0x1AAA, 0x1BBB, 0x1CCC, 0x1DDD, 0x1EEE,
@@ -776,7 +776,7 @@ genpattern (int *dest, size_t num, struct randint_source *s)
break;
}
else
- { /* Pad out with k of the n available */
+ { /* Pad out with n of the k available */
do
{
if (n == (size_t) k || randint_choose (s, k) < n)
@@ -785,6 +785,7 @@ genpattern (int *dest, size_t num, struct randint_source *s)
n--;
}
p++;
+ k--;
}
while (n);
break;