[PATCH] proc: Avoid mixing integer types in mem_rw()

From: Marcelo Henrique Cerri <marcelo.cerri@canonical.com>
To: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Marcelo Henrique Cerri <marcelo.cerri@canonical.com>,
	David Disseldorp <ddiss@suse.de>,
	Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@canonical.com>,
	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>,
	Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>,
	Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>, Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>,
	Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@gmail.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] proc: Avoid mixing integer types in mem_rw()
Date: Wed, 12 May 2021 09:52:12 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210512125215.3348316-1-marcelo.cerri@canonical.com> (raw)

Use size_t when capping the count argument received by mem_rw(). Since
count is size_t, using min_t(int, ...) can lead to a negative value
that will later be passed to access_remote_vm(), which can cause
unexpected behavior.

Since we are capping the value to at maximum PAGE_SIZE, the conversion
from size_t to int when passing it to access_remote_vm() as "len"
shouldn't be a problem.

Reviewed-by: David Disseldorp <ddiss@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Henrique Cerri <marcelo.cerri@canonical.com>
---
 fs/proc/base.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/proc/base.c b/fs/proc/base.c
index 3851bfcdba56..8dbc6a1aaadb 100644
--- a/fs/proc/base.c
+++ b/fs/proc/base.c
@@ -854,7 +854,7 @@ static ssize_t mem_rw(struct file *file, char __user *buf,
 	flags = FOLL_FORCE | (write ? FOLL_WRITE : 0);
 
 	while (count > 0) {
-		int this_len = min_t(int, count, PAGE_SIZE);
+		size_t this_len = min_t(size_t, count, PAGE_SIZE);
 
 		if (write && copy_from_user(page, buf, this_len)) {
 			copied = -EFAULT;
-- 
2.25.1

