* [merged mm-nonmm-stable] lib-validate-in-memory-lz4-chunk-length.patch removed from -mm tree
@ 2026-10-07 2:05 Andrew Morton
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From: Andrew Morton @ 2026-10-07 2:05 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: mm-commits, vega, kyungsik.lee, zhilinz, akpm
The quilt patch titled
Subject: lib: validate in-memory LZ4 chunk length
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
lib-validate-in-memory-lz4-chunk-length.patch
This patch was dropped because it was merged into the mm-nonmm-stable branch
of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
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From: Zhiling Zou <zhilinz@nebusec.ai>
Subject: lib: validate in-memory LZ4 chunk length
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 2026 21:32:17 +0800
We found and validated an issue in lib/decompress_unlz4.c. The bug is
reachable by a root user through kexec_file_load() with a crafted external
initrd.
unlz4() reads the compressed chunk length from an in-memory initrd and
passes it to LZ4_decompress_safe(). It only checks the chunk length
against the allocation size when the input is filled by a callback.
Reject an in-memory chunk that extends past the remaining input before
calling the LZ4 decoder. This prevents malformed initrds from making
the decoder read past the mapped archive.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/59c6555c27aa7ba18ee227f9f02c78d15a37605f.1789219453.git.zhilinz@nebusec.ai
Fixes: e76e1fdfa8f8 ("lib: add support for LZ4-compressed kernel")
Signed-off-by: Zhiling Zou <zhilinz@nebusec.ai>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Reported-by: VEGA <vega@nebusec.ai>
Assisted-by: LLM
Cc: Kyungsik Lee <kyungsik.lee@lge.com>
---
lib/decompress_unlz4.c | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
--- a/lib/decompress_unlz4.c~lib-validate-in-memory-lz4-chunk-length
+++ a/lib/decompress_unlz4.c
@@ -139,6 +139,10 @@ STATIC inline int INIT unlz4(u8 *input,
if (!fill) {
inp += 4;
size -= 4;
+ if (chunksize > size) {
+ error("data corrupted");
+ goto exit_2;
+ }
} else {
if (chunksize > LZ4_compressBound(uncomp_chunksize)) {
error("chunk length is longer than allocated");
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from zhilinz@nebusec.ai are
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