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From: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.com>
To: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>,
	Or Cohen <orcohen@paloaltonetworks.com>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	textshell@uchuujin.de, Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>,
	sam@ravnborg.org, mpatocka@redhat.com, ghalat@redhat.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jwilk@jwilk.net,
	Nadav Markus <nmarkus@paloaltonetworks.com>,
	syzkaller@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: Bug report - slab-out-of-bounds in vcs_scr_readw
Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2019 07:54:21 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <c30fc539-68a8-65d7-226c-6f8e6fd8bdfb@suse.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <nycvar.YSQ.7.76.1911041928030.30289@knanqh.ubzr>

On 04. 11. 19, 19:33, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> On Mon, 4 Nov 2019, Or Cohen wrote:
> 
>> @gregkh@linuxfoundation.org @nico@fluxnic.net  - Thanks for the quick response.
>> @gregkh@linuxfoundation.org  - Regarding your question, I don't think
>> the 1 byte buffer is related to the problem. (  it's just was there in
>> the initial reproducer the fuzzer created, and I forgot to remove it
>> while reducing code from the reproducer ).
> 
> I think I know what the problem is. I have no time to test it though.
> 
> Please try this (untested) patch. Also please try running the same test 
> code but with vcsa6 in addition to vcsu6 to be sure.
> 
> ---------- >8
> Subject: [PATCH] vcs: add missing validation on vcs_size() returned value
> 
> One usage instance didn't account for the fact that vcs_size() may
> return a negative error code.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <npitre@baylibre.com>
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/tty/vt/vc_screen.c b/drivers/tty/vt/vc_screen.c
> index 1f042346e7..fa07d79027 100644
> --- a/drivers/tty/vt/vc_screen.c
> +++ b/drivers/tty/vt/vc_screen.c
> @@ -474,6 +474,10 @@ vcs_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buf, size_t count, loff_t *ppos)
>  		goto unlock_out;
>  
>  	size = vcs_size(inode);
> +	if (size < 0) {
> +		ret = size;
> +		goto unlock_out;
> +	}
>  	ret = -EINVAL;
>  	if (pos < 0 || pos > size)
>  		goto unlock_out;

pos must be >= 0, so "pos > size" would catch this case as a side
effect, or am I missing something? That being said, the patch is
correct, but won't fix the issue IMO.

thanks,
-- 
js
suse labs

  reply	other threads:[~2019-11-05  6:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <CAM6JnLeEnvjjQPyLeh+8dt5wGNud_vks5k_eXJZy2T1H7ao=hQ@mail.gmail.com>
2019-11-04 15:24 ` Bug report - slab-out-of-bounds in vcs_scr_readw Greg KH
2019-11-04 15:50   ` Nicolas Pitre
2019-11-04 16:15     ` Or Cohen
2019-11-04 18:33       ` Nicolas Pitre
2019-11-05  6:54         ` Jiri Slaby [this message]
2019-11-05  9:03           ` Or Cohen
2019-11-05  9:14             ` Jiri Slaby
2019-11-05  9:33               ` Nicolas Pitre
2019-11-05 10:29                 ` Jiri Slaby
2019-11-05 10:53                   ` Dmitry Vyukov
2019-11-05 13:44                   ` Nicolas Pitre
2019-11-06 17:01                     ` Or Cohen
2019-11-26 21:55                 ` Nicolas Pitre
2019-11-27  6:45                   ` Greg KH
2019-11-27 16:24                     ` Nicolas Pitre
2019-11-27 16:30                       ` Greg KH

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