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authoryonghua zheng <younghua.zheng@gmail.com>2013-08-13 16:01:03 -0700
committerBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>2013-09-10 01:57:23 +0100
commitbd20948dc24c3a1cf5ea18385943783f11c2c751 (patch)
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fs/proc/task_mmu.c: fix buffer overflow in add_page_map()
commit 8c8296223f3abb142be8fc31711b18a704c0e7d8 upstream. Recently we met quite a lot of random kernel panic issues after enabling CONFIG_PROC_PAGE_MONITOR. After debuggind we found this has something to do with following bug in pagemap: In struct pagemapread: struct pagemapread { int pos, len; pagemap_entry_t *buffer; bool v2; }; pos is number of PM_ENTRY_BYTES in buffer, but len is the size of buffer, it is a mistake to compare pos and len in add_page_map() for checking buffer is full or not, and this can lead to buffer overflow and random kernel panic issue. Correct len to be total number of PM_ENTRY_BYTES in buffer. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: document pagemapread.pos and .len units, fix PM_ENTRY_BYTES definition] Signed-off-by: Yonghua Zheng <younghua.zheng@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> [bwh: Backported to 3.2: - Adjust context - There is no pagemap_entry_t definition; keep using u64] Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/proc/task_mmu.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/proc/task_mmu.c6
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/fs/proc/task_mmu.c b/fs/proc/task_mmu.c
index 3efa725..ef1740d 100644
--- a/fs/proc/task_mmu.c
+++ b/fs/proc/task_mmu.c
@@ -604,7 +604,7 @@ const struct file_operations proc_clear_refs_operations = {
};
struct pagemapread {
- int pos, len;
+ int pos, len; /* units: PM_ENTRY_BYTES, not bytes */
u64 *buffer;
};
@@ -792,8 +792,8 @@ static ssize_t pagemap_read(struct file *file, char __user *buf,
if (!count)
goto out_task;
- pm.len = PM_ENTRY_BYTES * (PAGEMAP_WALK_SIZE >> PAGE_SHIFT);
- pm.buffer = kmalloc(pm.len, GFP_TEMPORARY);
+ pm.len = (PAGEMAP_WALK_SIZE >> PAGE_SHIFT);
+ pm.buffer = kmalloc(pm.len * PM_ENTRY_BYTES, GFP_TEMPORARY);
ret = -ENOMEM;
if (!pm.buffer)
goto out_task;