Patch "arm: oabi compat: add missing access checks" has been added to the 4.7-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    arm: oabi compat: add missing access checks

to the 4.7-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:
     arm-oabi-compat-add-missing-access-checks.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.7 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From 7de249964f5578e67b99699c5f0b405738d820a2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dave Weinstein <olorin@google.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2016 11:55:41 -0700
Subject: arm: oabi compat: add missing access checks

From: Dave Weinstein <olorin@google.com>

commit 7de249964f5578e67b99699c5f0b405738d820a2 upstream.

Add access checks to sys_oabi_epoll_wait() and sys_oabi_semtimedop().
This fixes CVE-2016-3857, a local privilege escalation under
CONFIG_OABI_COMPAT.

Reported-by: Chiachih Wu <wuchiachih@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Dave Weinstein <olorin@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 arch/arm/kernel/sys_oabi-compat.c |    8 +++++++-
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/arch/arm/kernel/sys_oabi-compat.c
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/sys_oabi-compat.c
@@ -279,8 +279,12 @@ asmlinkage long sys_oabi_epoll_wait(int
 	mm_segment_t fs;
 	long ret, err, i;
 
-	if (maxevents <= 0 || maxevents > (INT_MAX/sizeof(struct epoll_event)))
+	if (maxevents <= 0 ||
+			maxevents > (INT_MAX/sizeof(*kbuf)) ||
+			maxevents > (INT_MAX/sizeof(*events)))
 		return -EINVAL;
+	if (!access_ok(VERIFY_WRITE, events, sizeof(*events) * maxevents))
+		return -EFAULT;
 	kbuf = kmalloc(sizeof(*kbuf) * maxevents, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!kbuf)
 		return -ENOMEM;
@@ -317,6 +321,8 @@ asmlinkage long sys_oabi_semtimedop(int
 
 	if (nsops < 1 || nsops > SEMOPM)
 		return -EINVAL;
+	if (!access_ok(VERIFY_READ, tsops, sizeof(*tsops) * nsops))
+		return -EFAULT;
 	sops = kmalloc(sizeof(*sops) * nsops, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!sops)
 		return -ENOMEM;


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from olorin@google.com are

queue-4.7/arm-oabi-compat-add-missing-access-checks.patch