From: Pratyush Yadav <pratyush@kernel.org>
To: Tarun Sahu <tarunsahu@google.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>,
Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>,
Pratyush Yadav <pratyush@kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Alexander Graf <graf@amazon.com>,
kexec@lists.infradead.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 1/3] mm/memfd_luo: validate serialized_data before conversion
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2026 14:19:11 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2vxz5x39o3eo.fsf@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260623105201.3724592-2-tarunsahu@google.com> (Tarun Sahu's message of "Tue, 23 Jun 2026 10:51:59 +0000")
On Tue, Jun 23 2026, Tarun Sahu wrote:
> In memfd_luo_finish() and memfd_luo_retrieve(), phys_to_virt() was called
> on args->serialized_data before checking if the physical address is valid.
> Since physical address 0 does not map to virtual NULL (due to direct
> mapping offsets), the subsequent check 'if (!ser)' was ineffective at
> catching a missing serialized_data, leading to unsafe dereferences later.
>
> Validate that args->serialized_data is non-zero before calling
> phys_to_virt().
>
> Fixes: b3749f174d68 ("mm: memfd_luo: allow preserving memfd")
> Signed-off-by: Tarun Sahu <tarunsahu@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Pratyush Yadav (Google) <pratyush@kernel.org>
[...]
--
Regards,
Pratyush Yadav
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-06-23 12:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-06-23 10:51 [PATCH v5 0/2] luo: convert serialized ptr to KHOSER_PTR Tarun Sahu
2026-06-23 10:51 ` [PATCH v5 1/3] mm/memfd_luo: validate serialized_data before conversion Tarun Sahu
2026-06-23 12:19 ` Pratyush Yadav [this message]
2026-06-23 10:52 ` [PATCH v5 2/3] kho: add KHOSER_COPY_PTR to allow phys copy of serialized ptr Tarun Sahu
2026-06-23 11:12 ` tarunsahu
2026-06-23 12:26 ` Pratyush Yadav
2026-06-23 10:52 ` [PATCH v5 3/3] luo: Update serialized data to use KHOSER_PTR Tarun Sahu
2026-06-23 11:12 ` tarunsahu
2026-06-23 12:54 ` Pratyush Yadav
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