From: "Bryn M. Reeves" <bmr@redhat.com>
To: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Cc: dm-devel@lists.linux.dev, Tony Asleson <tasleson@redhat.com>,
Alasdair Kergon <agk@redhat.com>,
Zdenek Kabelac <zkabelac@redhat.com>,
Benjamin Marzinski <bmarzins@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] dm: fix a buffer overflow in ioctl processing
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2026 17:42:48 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <adfXCEMPDWBh_Bi0@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <510b5754-3944-6b4e-03b8-f3a7dc137944@redhat.com>
On Thu, Apr 09, 2026 at 05:49:58PM +0200, Mikulas Patocka wrote:
> Luckily, this bug has no security implications because:
> 1. Only root can issue device mapper ioctls
> 2. The commonly used libraries that communicate with device mapper
> (libdevmapper and devicemapper-rs) use buffer size that is aligned to
> 8 bytes - thus, "outptr = align_ptr(outptr)" can't overshoot the input
> buffer and the bug can't happen accidentally
>
> Reported-by: Tony Asleson <tasleson@redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Bryn M. Reeves <bmr@redhat.com>
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2026-04-09 15:49 [PATCH] dm: fix a buffer overflow in ioctl processing Mikulas Patocka
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