From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>
To: Or Cohen <orcohen@paloaltonetworks.com>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
jslaby@suse.com, 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: Mon, 4 Nov 2019 19:33:57 +0100 (CET) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <nycvar.YSQ.7.76.1911041928030.30289@knanqh.ubzr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAM6JnLdrzCPOYyfTdmriFo7cRaGM4p2OEPd_0MHa3_WemamffA@mail.gmail.com>
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;
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-11-04 18:34 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 [this message]
2019-11-05 6:54 ` Jiri Slaby
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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