[nginx] Added protection against r->main->count overflow by subr...

Valentin Bartenev vbart at nginx.com
Mon Aug 31 20:29:04 UTC 2015


details:   http://hg.nginx.org/nginx/rev/8c6e71722aff
branches:  
changeset: 6238:8c6e71722aff
user:      Valentin Bartenev <vbart at nginx.com>
date:      Mon Aug 31 23:25:16 2015 +0300
description:
Added protection against r->main->count overflow by subrequests.

This overflow has become possible after the change in 06e850859a26,
since concurrent subrequests are not limited now and each of them is
counted in r->main->count.

diffstat:

 src/http/ngx_http_core_module.c |  10 ++++++++++
 src/http/ngx_http_request.h     |   2 +-
 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diffs (33 lines):

diff -r 06e850859a26 -r 8c6e71722aff src/http/ngx_http_core_module.c
--- a/src/http/ngx_http_core_module.c	Sun Aug 23 21:03:32 2015 +0300
+++ b/src/http/ngx_http_core_module.c	Mon Aug 31 23:25:16 2015 +0300
@@ -2433,6 +2433,16 @@ ngx_http_subrequest(ngx_http_request_t *
         return NGX_ERROR;
     }
 
+    /*
+     * 1000 is reserved for other purposes.
+     */
+    if (r->main->count >= 65535 - 1000) {
+        ngx_log_error(NGX_LOG_CRIT, r->connection->log, 0,
+                      "request reference counter overflow "
+                      "while processing \"%V\"", uri);
+        return NGX_ERROR;
+    }
+
     sr = ngx_pcalloc(r->pool, sizeof(ngx_http_request_t));
     if (sr == NULL) {
         return NGX_ERROR;
diff -r 06e850859a26 -r 8c6e71722aff src/http/ngx_http_request.h
--- a/src/http/ngx_http_request.h	Sun Aug 23 21:03:32 2015 +0300
+++ b/src/http/ngx_http_request.h	Mon Aug 31 23:25:16 2015 +0300
@@ -439,8 +439,8 @@ struct ngx_http_request_s {
 
     ngx_http_cleanup_t               *cleanup;
 
+    unsigned                          count:16;
     unsigned                          subrequests:8;
-    unsigned                          count:8;
     unsigned                          blocked:8;
 
     unsigned                          aio:1;



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