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Subject[PATCH 122/133] fs/proc/task_mmu.c: fix buffer overflow in add_page_map()
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3.8.13.7 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: yonghua zheng <younghua.zheng@gmail.com>

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>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@canonical.com>
---
fs/proc/task_mmu.c | 8 ++++----
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/proc/task_mmu.c b/fs/proc/task_mmu.c
index ca5ce7f..f31d90f 100644
--- a/fs/proc/task_mmu.c
+++ b/fs/proc/task_mmu.c
@@ -792,14 +792,14 @@ typedef struct {
} pagemap_entry_t;

struct pagemapread {
- int pos, len;
+ int pos, len; /* units: PM_ENTRY_BYTES, not bytes */
pagemap_entry_t *buffer;
};

#define PAGEMAP_WALK_SIZE (PMD_SIZE)
#define PAGEMAP_WALK_MASK (PMD_MASK)

-#define PM_ENTRY_BYTES sizeof(u64)
+#define PM_ENTRY_BYTES sizeof(pagemap_entry_t)
#define PM_STATUS_BITS 3
#define PM_STATUS_OFFSET (64 - PM_STATUS_BITS)
#define PM_STATUS_MASK (((1LL << PM_STATUS_BITS) - 1) << PM_STATUS_OFFSET)
@@ -1038,8 +1038,8 @@ 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;
--
1.8.1.2


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