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From: Chris Leech <cleech@redhat.com>
To: Lin Ma <linma@zju.edu.cn>
Cc: lduncan@suse.com, michael.christie@oracle.com,
	jejb@linux.ibm.com, martin.petersen@oracle.com,
	vikas.chaudhary@qlogic.com, JBottomley@parallels.com,
	mchan@broadcom.com, benli@broadcom.com, ogerlitz@voltaire.com,
	open-iscsi@googlegroups.com, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 2/2] scsi: iscsi: Add strlen check in iscsi_if_set_{host}_param
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2023 10:26:47 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZMAF1+P3blgBZ+/m@rhel-developer-toolbox-latest> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230725024545.428519-1-linma@zju.edu.cn>

On Tue, Jul 25, 2023 at 10:45:45AM +0800, Lin Ma wrote:
> The function iscsi_if_set_param and iscsi_if_set_host_param converts
> nlattr payload to type char* and then call C string handling functions
> like sscanf and kstrdup.
> 
>   char *data = (char*)ev + sizeof(*ev);
>   ...
>   sscanf(data, "%d", &value);
> 
> However, since the nlattr is provided by the user-space program and
> the nlmsg skb is allocated with GFP_KERNEL instead of GFP_ZERO flag
> (see netlink_alloc_large_skb in netlink_sendmsg), the dirty data
> remained in the heap can cause OOB read for those string handling
> functions.

Reviewed-by: Chris Leech <cleech@redhat.com>


  reply	other threads:[~2023-07-25 17:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-07-25  2:45 [PATCH v1 2/2] scsi: iscsi: Add strlen check in iscsi_if_set_{host}_param Lin Ma
2023-07-25 17:26 ` Chris Leech [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2023-07-23  7:58 Lin Ma
2023-07-26  1:56 ` Martin K. Petersen

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