From: Paul Cercueil <paul@crapouillou.net>
To: Nick Terrell <terrelln@fb.com>
Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>,
linux-mips@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
od@zcrc.me
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] lib: decompress_unzstd: Limit output size
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2020 23:05:58 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YL6LFQ.1E9SOADXFSGD2@crapouillou.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8E3C6FC0-2DF0-49B5-9885-BA4AC81A117D@fb.com>
Le lun. 24 août 2020 à 20:11, Nick Terrell <terrelln@fb.com> a écrit
:
>
>
>> On Aug 21, 2020, at 9:29 AM, Paul Cercueil <paul@crapouillou.net>
>> wrote:
>>
>> The zstd decompression code, as it is right now, will have internal
>> values overflow on 32-bit systems when the output size is LONG_MAX.
>>
>> Until someone smarter than me can figure out how to fix the zstd
>> code
>> properly, limit the destination buffer size to 512 MiB, which
>> should be
>> enough for everybody, in order to make it usable on 32-bit systems.
>
> Can you bump the size up to 2GB? I suspect the problem inside of zstd
> is an off-by-one error or something similar, so getting closer to the
> limit
> shouldn't be a problem. I’d feel more comfortable with 2GB, since
> kernels can get pretty large.
SZ_1G is the biggest I can go to get the kernel to boot. With SZ_2G it
won't boot.
> Hmm, zstd shouldn’t be overflowing that value. I’m currently
> preparing
> a patch to updating the version of zstd in the kernel, and using
> upstream
> directly. I will add a test upstream in 32-bit mode to ensure that we
> don’t
> overflow a 32-bit size_t, so this will be fixed after the update.
Great, thanks.
Cheers,
-Paul
>
> -Nick
>
>> Signed-off-by: Paul Cercueil <paul@crapouillou.net>
>> ---
>> lib/decompress_unzstd.c | 3 ++-
>> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/lib/decompress_unzstd.c b/lib/decompress_unzstd.c
>> index 0ad2c15479ed..e1c03b1eaa6e 100644
>> --- a/lib/decompress_unzstd.c
>> +++ b/lib/decompress_unzstd.c
>> @@ -77,6 +77,7 @@
>>
>> #include <linux/decompress/mm.h>
>> #include <linux/kernel.h>
>> +#include <linux/sizes.h>
>> #include <linux/zstd.h>
>>
>> /* 128MB is the maximum window size supported by zstd. */
>> @@ -179,7 +180,7 @@ static int INIT __unzstd(unsigned char *in_buf,
>> long in_len,
>> size_t ret;
>>
>> if (out_len == 0)
>> - out_len = LONG_MAX; /* no limit */
>> + out_len = SZ_512M; /* should be big enough, right? */
>>
>> if (fill == NULL && flush == NULL)
>> /*
>> --
>> 2.28.0
>>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-08-24 21:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-08-21 16:29 [PATCH 1/2] lib: decompress_unzstd: Limit output size Paul Cercueil
2020-08-21 16:29 ` [PATCH 2/2] MIPS: Add support for ZSTD-compressed kernels Paul Cercueil
2020-08-24 19:51 ` Nick Terrell
2020-08-24 21:02 ` Paul Cercueil
2020-08-24 21:45 ` Nick Terrell
2020-08-24 20:11 ` [PATCH 1/2] lib: decompress_unzstd: Limit output size Nick Terrell
2020-08-24 21:05 ` Paul Cercueil [this message]
2020-08-24 21:50 ` Nick Terrell
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