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From: Red Hat Product Security <secalert@redhat.com>
To: navid.emamdoost@gmail.com
Cc: axboe@kernel.dk, emamd001@umn.edu, josef@toxicpanda.com,
	kjlu@umn.edu, linux-block@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mkubecek@suse.cz,
	nbd@other.debian.org, smccaman@umn.edu
Subject: [engineering.redhat.com #498403] Re: [PATCH v2] nbd_genl_status: null check for nla_nest_start
Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2019 15:37:14 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <rt-4.0.13-16866-1571341034-901.498403-5-0@engineering.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEkB2ES8rc4kkPwA+okfMa9CpFoDqmt=tx8H8vHZKBCfw9L_tg@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Navid,

Not sure if you meant to cc secalert@redhat.com on this. If anything is needed
from our side please let us know!

On Wed Oct 16 22:17:42 2019, navid.emamdoost@gmail.com wrote:
> Hi Michal, please check v3 at
> https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/patch/1126650/
>
>
> Thanks,
> Navid.
>
> On Tue, Sep 10, 2019 at 6:35 AM Michal Kubecek <mkubecek@suse.cz>
> wrote:
> >
> > (Just stumbled upon this patch when link to it came with a CVE bug
> report.)
> >
> > On Mon, Jul 29, 2019 at 11:42:26AM -0500, Navid Emamdoost wrote:
> > > nla_nest_start may fail and return NULL. The check is inserted,
> and
> > > errno is selected based on other call sites within the same source
> code.
> > > Update: removed extra new line.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Navid Emamdoost <navid.emamdoost@gmail.com>
> > > Reviewed-by: Bob Liu <bob.liu@oracle.com>
> > > ---
> > > drivers/block/nbd.c | 5 +++++
> > > 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/drivers/block/nbd.c b/drivers/block/nbd.c
> > > index 9bcde2325893..2410812d1e82 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/block/nbd.c
> > > +++ b/drivers/block/nbd.c
> > > @@ -2149,6 +2149,11 @@ static int nbd_genl_status(struct sk_buff
> *skb, struct genl_info *info)
> > > }
> > >
> > > dev_list = nla_nest_start_noflag(reply,
> NBD_ATTR_DEVICE_LIST);
> > > + if (!dev_list) {
> > > + ret = -EMSGSIZE;
> > > + goto out;
> > > + }
> > > +
> > > if (index == -1) {
> > > ret = idr_for_each(&nbd_index_idr, &status_cb,
> reply);
> > > if (ret) {
> >
> > You should also call nlmsg_free(reply) when you bail out so that you
> > don't introduce a memory leak.
> >
> > Michal Kubecek
>
>
>


--
Kat Bost
Red Hat Product Security


      reply	other threads:[~2019-10-17 19:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-07-23 23:01 [PATCH] nbd_genl_status: null check for nla_nest_start Navid Emamdoost
2019-07-29 13:09 ` Josef Bacik
2019-07-29 16:42   ` [PATCH v2] " Navid Emamdoost
2019-07-30  5:52     ` [engineering.redhat.com #494735] Re: [PATCH] " Red Hat Product Security
2019-07-30  6:05     ` [PATCH v2] " Bob Liu
2019-09-10 11:35     ` Michal Kubecek
2019-09-11 16:40       ` [PATCH v3] " Navid Emamdoost
2019-10-21  6:42         ` Michal Kubecek
2021-04-14  3:05           ` Mark-PK Tsai
2019-10-17  2:17       ` [PATCH v2] " Navid Emamdoost
2019-10-17 19:37         ` Red Hat Product Security [this message]

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