* [PATCH] md/raid1: Prevent excessively large memory allocations
@ 2026-10-28 15:27 Gowtham S Bhushan
2026-10-28 15:39 ` sashiko-bot
0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Gowtham S Bhushan @ 2026-10-28 15:27 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: song, yukuai
Cc: magiclinan, xiao, linux-raid, linux-kernel,
syzbot+fc26c366038b54261e53, Gowtham S Bhushan,
syzbot+75f49ec552cc74d9d69b, stable, syzkaller-bugs
Validate mddev->raid_disks before memory allocation to prevent integer
wrap-around or allocating an unreasonably large chunk of memory that
exceeds KMALLOC_MAX_SIZE boundaries.
Reported-by: syzbot+75f49ec552cc74d9d69b@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=75f49ec552cc74d9d69b
Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Tested-by: syzbot+75f49ec552cc74d9d69b@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: syzkaller-bugs@googlegroups.com
Signed-off-by: Gowtham S Bhushan <gowtham398gs@gmail.com>
---
drivers/md/raid1.c | 10 ++++++++++
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/md/raid1.c b/drivers/md/raid1.c
index f0646fb24371..88038d535727 100644
--- a/drivers/md/raid1.c
+++ b/drivers/md/raid1.c
@@ -3050,6 +3050,16 @@ static struct r1conf *setup_conf(struct mddev *mddev)
struct md_rdev *rdev;
size_t r1bio_size;
int err = -ENOMEM;
+ size_t calculated_size;
+
+ /* prevent baseline integer wrap-around anomalies first*/
+ /* Safely calculate size; overflows automatically saturate to SIZE_MAX */
+
+ calculated_size = size_add(sizeof(struct r1conf),
+ size_mul(mddev->raid_disks, sizeof(struct r1bio)));
+
+ if (mddev->raid_disks <= 0 || calculated_size >= KMALLOC_MAX_SIZE)
+ return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
conf = kzalloc_obj(struct r1conf);
if (!conf)
--
2.56.0
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* Re: [PATCH] md/raid1: Prevent excessively large memory allocations
2026-10-28 15:27 [PATCH] md/raid1: Prevent excessively large memory allocations Gowtham S Bhushan
@ 2026-10-28 15:39 ` sashiko-bot
0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: sashiko-bot @ 2026-10-28 15:39 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Gowtham S Bhushan; +Cc: linux-raid, yukuai
Thank you for your contribution! Sashiko AI review found 1 potential issue(s) to consider:
- [Medium] md/raid1: incorrect allocation size calculation in setup_conf()
--
commit c8cc718382c763b1d6426dcf4d4968c6557c8e89
Author: Gowtham S Bhushan <gowtham398gs@gmail.com>
md/raid1: Prevent excessively large memory allocations
This commit adds a bounds check on mddev->raid_disks in setup_conf() to
prevent integer overflow and allocations exceeding KMALLOC_MAX_SIZE.
> diff --git a/drivers/md/raid1.c b/drivers/md/raid1.c
> index 894efb50c6d58..8ed871792bf48 100644
> --- a/drivers/md/raid1.c
> +++ b/drivers/md/raid1.c
> @@ -3020,6 +3020,16 @@ static struct r1conf *setup_conf(struct mddev *mddev)
> struct md_rdev *rdev;
> size_t r1bio_size;
> int err = -ENOMEM;
> + size_t calculated_size;
> +
> + /* prevent baseline integer wrap-around anomalies first*/
> + /* Safely calculate size; overflows automatically saturate to SIZE_MAX */
> +
> + calculated_size = size_add(sizeof(struct r1conf),
> + size_mul(mddev->raid_disks, sizeof(struct r1bio)));
> +
> + if (mddev->raid_disks <= 0 || calculated_size >= KMALLOC_MAX_SIZE)
> + return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
[Severity: Medium]
Does calculated_size match the actual allocations in drivers/md/raid1.c that
scale with mddev->raid_disks?
struct r1conf is a fixed-size structure with no flexible array member, and
struct r1bio is not allocated as an array of mddev->raid_disks elements. The
per-disk allocations are:
drivers/md/raid1.c:setup_conf() {
...
conf->mirrors = kzalloc(array3_size(sizeof(struct raid1_info),
mddev->raid_disks, 2),
GFP_KERNEL);
...
r1bio_size = offsetof(struct r1bio, bios[mddev->raid_disks * 2]);
conf->r1bio_pool = mempool_create_kmalloc_pool(NR_RAID_BIOS, r1bio_size);
...
}
and during resync initialization via raid1_sync_request() -> init_resync() ->
mempool_init() -> r1buf_pool_alloc():
drivers/md/raid1.c:r1buf_pool_alloc() {
...
rps = kmalloc_objs(struct resync_pages, conf->raid_disks * 2, gfp_flags);
...
}
Because calculated_size only checks mddev->raid_disks * sizeof(struct r1bio),
several allocations can still exceed KMALLOC_MAX_SIZE and trigger the
WARN_ON_ONCE_GFP(size > KMALLOC_MAX_SIZE, flags) warning in mm/slub.c:
1. On 64-bit systems with 4KB pages, sizeof(struct r1bio) is 80 bytes while
2 * sizeof(struct resync_pages) is 272 bytes per disk. A raid_disks value
such as 20,000 passes setup_conf() (~1.6 MB) and then requests ~5.44 MB in
r1buf_pool_alloc(), exceeding a 4 MB KMALLOC_MAX_SIZE.
2. On 32-bit systems, sizeof(struct r1bio) is 48 bytes while
2 * sizeof(struct raid1_info) is 56 or 64 bytes per disk. A raid_disks
value such as 70,000 or 80,000 passes calculated_size < KMALLOC_MAX_SIZE
and then exceeds a 4 MB KMALLOC_MAX_SIZE when allocating conf->mirrors in
setup_conf().
Also, since mddev->raid_disks is a signed int, calling
size_mul(mddev->raid_disks, ...) before checking mddev->raid_disks <= 0
implicitly converts negative values to a large size_t first.
Could mddev->raid_disks <= 0 be checked first, and the upper bound be
validated against the actual allocation sizes (or a reasonable maximum device
count)?
--
Sashiko AI review · https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20261028152755.383821-1-gowtham398gs@gmail.com?part=1
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