From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: willy@linux.intel.com (Matthew Wilcox) Date: Fri, 17 May 2013 09:41:28 -0400 Subject: [patch -resend] NVMe: check for integer overflow in nvme_map_user_pages() In-Reply-To: <20130513145950.GA21239@elgon.mountain> References: <100D68C7BA14664A8938383216E40DE027F80EAB@fmsmsx111.amr.corp.intel.com> <20130513145950.GA21239@elgon.mountain> Message-ID: <20130517134128.GT6057@linux.intel.com> On Mon, May 13, 2013@05:59:50PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote: > You need to have CAP_SYS_ADMIN to trigger this overflow but it makes the > static checkers complain so we should fix it. The worry is that > "length" comes from copy_from_user() so we need to check that "length + > offset" can't overflow. > > I also changed the min_t() cast to be unsigned instead of signed. Now > that we cap "length" to INT_MAX it doesn't make a difference, but it's a > little easier for reviewers to know that large values aren't cast to > negative. > > Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter Applied