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From: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>, Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH] mm: __nr_to_section - make it safe against overflow v2
Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2009 13:31:32 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090105103132.GD7645@localhost> (raw)

__nr_to_section should check for array bound overflow.
We should better get NULL dereference then silently
pass some memory snippet out of bounds to a caller.

Also add a comment about mem_section structure.

Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
---
 include/linux/mmzone.h |   15 +++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6.git/include/linux/mmzone.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.git.orig/include/linux/mmzone.h
+++ linux-2.6.git/include/linux/mmzone.h
@@ -935,6 +935,12 @@ static inline unsigned long early_pfn_to
 
 struct page;
 struct page_cgroup;
+
+/*
+ * NOTE: sizeof(struct mem_section) _must_ be power of 2
+ * otherwise SECTION_ROOT_MASK will be broken so be
+ * really cautious while modifying this structure
+ */
 struct mem_section {
 	/*
 	 * This is, logically, a pointer to an array of struct
@@ -980,9 +986,14 @@ extern struct mem_section mem_section[NR
 
 static inline struct mem_section *__nr_to_section(unsigned long nr)
 {
-	if (!mem_section[SECTION_NR_TO_ROOT(nr)])
+	unsigned long idx = SECTION_NR_TO_ROOT(nr);
+
+	if (WARN_ON(idx >= NR_SECTION_ROOTS))
+		return NULL;
+
+	if (!mem_section[idx])
 		return NULL;
-	return &mem_section[SECTION_NR_TO_ROOT(nr)][nr & SECTION_ROOT_MASK];
+	return &mem_section[idx][nr & SECTION_ROOT_MASK];
 }
 extern int __section_nr(struct mem_section* ms);
 extern unsigned long usemap_size(void);

             reply	other threads:[~2009-01-05 10:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-05 10:31 Cyrill Gorcunov [this message]
2009-01-05 10:33 ` [PATCH] mm: __nr_to_section - make it safe against overflow v2 Pekka Enberg
2009-01-06  0:37 ` Andrew Morton
2009-01-06  5:57   ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2009-01-06  6:30     ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2009-01-06  7:49       ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2009-01-06  9:46   ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2009-01-06 10:51   ` Pekka Enberg

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