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fs/proc/task_mmu.c: fix buffer overflow in add_page_map()
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commit 8c8296223f3abb142be8fc31711b18a704c0e7d8 upstream.

Recently we met quite a lot of random kernel panic issues after enabling
CONFIG_PROC_PAGE_MONITOR.  After debuggind we found this has something
to do with following bug in pagemap:

In struct pagemapread:

  struct pagemapread {
      int pos, len;
      pagemap_entry_t *buffer;
      bool v2;
  };

pos is number of PM_ENTRY_BYTES in buffer, but len is the size of
buffer, it is a mistake to compare pos and len in add_page_map() for
checking buffer is full or not, and this can lead to buffer overflow and
random kernel panic issue.

Correct len to be total number of PM_ENTRY_BYTES in buffer.

[[email protected]: document pagemapread.pos and .len units, fix PM_ENTRY_BYTES definition]
Signed-off-by: Yonghua Zheng <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
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yonghua zheng authored and bb-qq committed May 16, 2017
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8 changes: 4 additions & 4 deletions fs/proc/task_mmu.c
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Expand Up @@ -737,14 +737,14 @@ typedef struct {
} pagemap_entry_t;

struct pagemapread {
int pos, len;
int pos, len; /* units: PM_ENTRY_BYTES, not bytes */
pagemap_entry_t *buffer;
};

#define PAGEMAP_WALK_SIZE (PMD_SIZE)
#define PAGEMAP_WALK_MASK (PMD_MASK)

#define PM_ENTRY_BYTES sizeof(u64)
#define PM_ENTRY_BYTES sizeof(pagemap_entry_t)
#define PM_STATUS_BITS 3
#define PM_STATUS_OFFSET (64 - PM_STATUS_BITS)
#define PM_STATUS_MASK (((1LL << PM_STATUS_BITS) - 1) << PM_STATUS_OFFSET)
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -971,8 +971,8 @@ static ssize_t pagemap_read(struct file *file, char __user *buf,
if (!count)
goto out_task;

pm.len = PM_ENTRY_BYTES * (PAGEMAP_WALK_SIZE >> PAGE_SHIFT);
pm.buffer = kmalloc(pm.len, GFP_TEMPORARY);
pm.len = (PAGEMAP_WALK_SIZE >> PAGE_SHIFT);
pm.buffer = kmalloc(pm.len * PM_ENTRY_BYTES, GFP_TEMPORARY);
ret = -ENOMEM;
if (!pm.buffer)
goto out_task;
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