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From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org, Trilok Soni <tsoni@codeaurora.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -stable v4.14] mm/usercopy: use memory range to be accessed for wraparound check
Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2019 20:41:13 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190816184113.GA26008@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201908161123.93DFEB96@keescook>

On Fri, Aug 16, 2019 at 11:24:08AM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> From: Prasad Sodagudi <psodagud@codeaurora.org>
> 
> commit 951531691c4bcaa59f56a316e018bc2ff1ddf855 upstream.
> 
> Currently, when checking to see if accessing n bytes starting at address
> "ptr" will cause a wraparound in the memory addresses, the check in
> check_bogus_address() adds an extra byte, which is incorrect, as the
> range of addresses that will be accessed is [ptr, ptr + (n - 1)].
> 
> This can lead to incorrectly detecting a wraparound in the memory
> address, when trying to read 4 KB from memory that is mapped to the the
> last possible page in the virtual address space, when in fact, accessing
> that range of memory would not cause a wraparound to occur.
> 
> Use the memory range that will actually be accessed when considering if
> accessing a certain amount of bytes will cause the memory address to
> wrap around.
> 
> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1564509253-23287-1-git-send-email-isaacm@codeaurora.org
> Fixes: f5509cc18daa ("mm: Hardened usercopy")
> Signed-off-by: Prasad Sodagudi <psodagud@codeaurora.org>
> Signed-off-by: Isaac J. Manjarres <isaacm@codeaurora.org>
> Co-developed-by: Prasad Sodagudi <psodagud@codeaurora.org>
> Reviewed-by: William Kucharski <william.kucharski@oracle.com>
> Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> Cc: Trilok Soni <tsoni@codeaurora.org>
> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
> [kees: backport to v4.14]
> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>

This and the 4.9 patch now queued up, thanks for the backports.

greg k-h

      reply	other threads:[~2019-08-16 18:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-08-16 18:24 [PATCH -stable v4.14] mm/usercopy: use memory range to be accessed for wraparound check Kees Cook
2019-08-16 18:41 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]

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