From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from nautica.notk.org ([91.121.71.147]:41259 "EHLO nautica.notk.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1725825AbeIEDFp (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Sep 2018 23:05:45 -0400 From: Dominique Martinet To: Omar Sandoval , Andrew Morton Cc: Dominique Martinet , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, Alexey Dobriyan , Eric Biederman , James Morse , Bhupesh Sharma , kernel-team@fb.com Subject: [PATCH v3] proc/kcore: fix invalid memory access in multi-page read optimization Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2018 00:38:22 +0200 Message-Id: <1536100702-28706-1-git-send-email-asmadeus@codewreck.org> In-Reply-To: <1536100545-26905-1-git-send-email-asmadeus@codewreck.org> References: <1536100545-26905-1-git-send-email-asmadeus@codewreck.org> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: The 'm' kcore_list item could point to kclist_head, and it is incorrect to look at m->addr / m->size in this case. There is no choice but to run through the list of entries for every address if we did not find any entry in the previous iteration Reset 'm' to NULL in that case at Omar Sandoval's suggestion. Fixes: bf991c2231117 ("proc/kcore: optimize multiple page reads") Signed-off-by: Dominique Martinet --- Sorry, resent v2 because From didn't match sob tag fs/proc/kcore.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/fs/proc/kcore.c b/fs/proc/kcore.c index ad72261ee3fe..578926032880 100644 --- a/fs/proc/kcore.c +++ b/fs/proc/kcore.c @@ -464,6 +464,7 @@ read_kcore(struct file *file, char __user *buffer, size_t buflen, loff_t *fpos) ret = -EFAULT; goto out; } + m = NULL; } else if (m->type == KCORE_VMALLOC) { vread(buf, (char *)start, tsz); /* we have to zero-fill user buffer even if no read */ -- 2.17.1