From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
To: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@kernel.org>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
keyrings@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org,
Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>,
James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>,
"Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com>,
"open list:SECURITY SUBSYSTEM"
<linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org>,
open list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 5/6] KEYS: Reject @datalen values over INT_MAX
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:31:48 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261019193148.GE65095@quark> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261019181732.449591-6-jarkko@kernel.org>
On Mon, Oct 19, 2026 at 09:17:25PM +0300, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> Protect quota from overflowing by rejecting @datalen values that
> surpass over INT_MAX.
Is there an example of how this can happen, and why the limit needs to
still be so large? add_key() for example limits the payload length to
1 MiB.
- Eric
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-10-19 19:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-10-19 18:17 [PATCH v2 0/6] KEYS: rhashtable bug fixes Jarkko Sakkinen
2026-10-19 18:17 ` [PATCH v2 1/6] KEYS: Expand key->{datalen,quotalen} to unsigned int Jarkko Sakkinen
2026-10-19 18:24 ` sashiko-bot
2026-10-19 19:12 ` Eric Biggers
2026-10-19 20:32 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2026-10-19 18:17 ` [PATCH v2 2/6] KEYS: Reject @desclen values >= KEY_MAX_DESC_SIZE in key_alloc() Jarkko Sakkinen
2026-10-19 18:30 ` sashiko-bot
2026-10-19 19:17 ` Eric Biggers
2026-10-19 20:46 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2026-10-19 18:17 ` [PATCH v2 3/6] KEYS: Prevent overflow of user->{qnkeys,qnbytes} " Jarkko Sakkinen
2026-10-19 18:25 ` sashiko-bot
2026-10-19 19:23 ` Eric Biggers
2026-10-19 20:53 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2026-10-19 18:17 ` [PATCH v2 4/6] KEYS: Prevent overflow of quota " Jarkko Sakkinen
2026-10-19 18:23 ` sashiko-bot
2026-10-19 19:25 ` Eric Biggers
2026-10-19 20:55 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2026-10-19 20:56 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2026-10-19 18:17 ` [PATCH v2 5/6] KEYS: Reject @datalen values over INT_MAX Jarkko Sakkinen
2026-10-19 18:24 ` sashiko-bot
2026-10-19 19:31 ` Eric Biggers [this message]
2026-10-19 21:07 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2026-10-19 18:17 ` [PATCH v2 6/6] KEYS: Verify the key identity in __keyctl_unlink Jarkko Sakkinen
2026-10-19 18:21 ` sashiko-bot
2026-10-19 19:35 ` Eric Biggers
2026-10-19 21:06 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2026-10-19 21:16 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2026-10-19 18:29 ` [PATCH v2 0/6] KEYS: rhashtable bug fixes Jarkko Sakkinen
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=20261019193148.GE65095@quark \
--to=ebiggers@kernel.org \
--cc=dhowells@redhat.com \
--cc=jarkko@kernel.org \
--cc=jmorris@namei.org \
--cc=keyrings@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=paul@paul-moore.com \
--cc=serge@hallyn.com \
--cc=stable@vger.kernel.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox