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From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: Tomas Bortoli <tomasbortoli@gmail.com>
Cc: ericvh@gmail.com, rminnich@sandia.gov, lucho@ionkov.net,
	davem@davemloft.net, v9fs-developer@lists.sourceforge.net,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	syzkaller@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: [V9fs-developer] [PATCH] Integer underflow in pdu_read()
Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2018 20:31:52 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180709193151.GI30522@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180709192651.28095-1-tomasbortoli@gmail.com>

On Mon, Jul 09, 2018 at 09:26:51PM +0200, Tomas Bortoli wrote:
> The pdu_read() function suffers from an integer underflow.
> When pdu->offset is greater than pdu->size, the length calculation will have
> a wrong result, resulting in an out-of-bound read.
> This patch modifies also pdu_write() in the same way to prevent the same
> issue from happening there and for consistency.

What does cause the calls of pdu_read() in such conditions and shouldn't *that*
be dealt with?

  reply	other threads:[~2018-07-09 19:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-07-09 19:26 [V9fs-developer] [PATCH] Integer underflow in pdu_read() Tomas Bortoli
2018-07-09 19:31 ` Al Viro [this message]
2018-07-09 22:14   ` Tomas Bortoli
2018-07-09 23:29     ` Dominique Martinet
2018-07-10  1:27 ` piaojun
2018-07-10  8:27   ` Tomas Bortoli
2018-07-10 11:06     ` piaojun
2018-07-10 11:16 ` piaojun
2018-07-11  2:04 ` jiangyiwen
2018-07-12 11:05   ` Tomas Bortoli

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