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SubjectRe: [PATCH] sched/core: Fix a potential double fetch bug on attr->size
On Sat, Sep 23, 2017 at 10:05:56PM -0400, Meng Xu wrote:
> Hi Peter and Ingo,
>
> As a reminder, this is a very similar issue to perf_copy_attr (see following patch)
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git/commit/?id=f12f42acdbb577a12eecfcebbbec41c81505c4dc <https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git/commit/?id=f12f42acdbb577a12eecfcebbbec41c81505c4dc>
>
> Will it be fixed as well?

If someone were to actually send me the patch.. probably.

> > On Aug 29, 2017, at 3:10 PM, Meng Xu <meng.xu@gatech.edu> wrote:
> >
> > From: Meng Xu <mengxu.gatech@gmail.com>
> >
> > `attr->size` after the second fetch `copy_from_user(attr, uattr, size)`,
> > can be different from what is initially fetched in and checked
> > `get_user(size, &uattr->size)` by racing condition in the userspace.
> >
> > The issue and the patch are both similar to commit f12f42a
> > (in kernel/events/core.c).
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Meng Xu <mengxu.gatech@gmail.com>
> > ---
> > kernel/sched/core.c | 2 ++
> > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
> > index 0869b20..c22d2b4 100644
> > --- a/kernel/sched/core.c
> > +++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
> > @@ -4349,6 +4349,8 @@ static int sched_copy_attr(struct sched_attr __user *uattr, struct sched_attr *a
> > if (ret)
> > return -EFAULT;
> >
> > + attr->size = size;
> > +
> > /*
> > * XXX: Do we want to be lenient like existing syscalls; or do we want
> > * to be strict and return an error on out-of-bounds values?
> > --
> > 2.7.4
> >
>

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