From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Return-Path: Subject: Patch "phonet: Check input from user before allocating" has been added to the 3.0-stable tree To: levinsasha928@gmail.com,davem@davemloft.net,gregkh@linuxfoundation.org,remi.denis-courmont@nokia.com Cc: , From: Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2012 13:59:26 -0700 Message-ID: <1335473966264@kroah.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit List-ID: This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled phonet: Check input from user before allocating to the 3.0-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: phonet-check-input-from-user-before-allocating.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.0 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let know about it. >>From 78ee65d4b2776fd57640cb4e97703a9d83d57f50 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sasha Levin Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2012 12:07:45 +0000 Subject: phonet: Check input from user before allocating From: Sasha Levin [ Upstream commit bcf1b70ac6eb0ed8286c66e6bf37cb747cbaa04c ] A phonet packet is limited to USHRT_MAX bytes, this is never checked during tx which means that the user can specify any size he wishes, and the kernel will attempt to allocate that size. In the good case, it'll lead to the following warning, but it may also cause the kernel to kick in the OOM and kill a random task on the server. [ 8921.744094] WARNING: at mm/page_alloc.c:2255 __alloc_pages_slowpath+0x65/0x730() [ 8921.749770] Pid: 5081, comm: trinity Tainted: G W 3.4.0-rc1-next-20120402-sasha #46 [ 8921.756672] Call Trace: [ 8921.758185] [] warn_slowpath_common+0x87/0xb0 [ 8921.762868] [] warn_slowpath_null+0x15/0x20 [ 8921.765399] [] __alloc_pages_slowpath+0x65/0x730 [ 8921.769226] [] ? zone_watermark_ok+0x1a/0x20 [ 8921.771686] [] ? get_page_from_freelist+0x625/0x660 [ 8921.773919] [] __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x1f8/0x240 [ 8921.776248] [] kmalloc_large_node+0x70/0xc0 [ 8921.778294] [] __kmalloc_node_track_caller+0x34/0x1c0 [ 8921.780847] [] ? sock_alloc_send_pskb+0xbc/0x260 [ 8921.783179] [] __alloc_skb+0x75/0x170 [ 8921.784971] [] sock_alloc_send_pskb+0xbc/0x260 [ 8921.787111] [] ? release_sock+0x7e/0x90 [ 8921.788973] [] sock_alloc_send_skb+0x10/0x20 [ 8921.791052] [] pep_sendmsg+0x60/0x380 [ 8921.792931] [] ? pn_socket_bind+0x156/0x180 [ 8921.794917] [] ? pn_socket_autobind+0x3f/0x90 [ 8921.797053] [] pn_socket_sendmsg+0x4f/0x70 [ 8921.798992] [] sock_aio_write+0x187/0x1b0 [ 8921.801395] [] ? sub_preempt_count+0xae/0xf0 [ 8921.803501] [] ? __lock_acquire+0x42c/0x4b0 [ 8921.805505] [] ? __sock_recv_ts_and_drops+0x140/0x140 [ 8921.807860] [] do_sync_readv_writev+0xbc/0x110 [ 8921.809986] [] ? might_fault+0x97/0xa0 [ 8921.811998] [] ? security_file_permission+0x1e/0x90 [ 8921.814595] [] do_readv_writev+0xe2/0x1e0 [ 8921.816702] [] ? do_setitimer+0x1ac/0x200 [ 8921.818819] [] ? get_parent_ip+0x11/0x50 [ 8921.820863] [] ? sub_preempt_count+0xae/0xf0 [ 8921.823318] [] vfs_writev+0x46/0x60 [ 8921.825219] [] sys_writev+0x4f/0xb0 [ 8921.827127] [] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b [ 8921.829384] ---[ end trace dffe390f30db9eb7 ]--- Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin Acked-by: Rémi Denis-Courmont Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- net/phonet/pep.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) --- a/net/phonet/pep.c +++ b/net/phonet/pep.c @@ -1045,6 +1045,9 @@ static int pep_sendmsg(struct kiocb *ioc int flags = msg->msg_flags; int err, done; + if (len > USHRT_MAX) + return -EMSGSIZE; + if ((msg->msg_flags & ~(MSG_DONTWAIT|MSG_EOR|MSG_NOSIGNAL| MSG_CMSG_COMPAT)) || !(msg->msg_flags & MSG_EOR)) Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from levinsasha928@gmail.com are queue-3.0/phonet-check-input-from-user-before-allocating.patch