From: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
To: Fedor Pchelkin <pchelkin@ispras.ru>
Cc: Harald Freudenberger <freude@linux.ibm.com>,
Holger Dengler <dengler@linux.ibm.com>,
Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>,
Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com>,
Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@linux.ibm.com>,
Sven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com>,
Ingo Franzki <ifranzki@linux.ibm.com>,
linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
lvc-project@linuxtesting.org, stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] s390/pkey: prevent overflow in size calculation for memdup_user()
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2025 10:48:53 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250612084853.10868Bec-hca@linux.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250611192011.206057-1-pchelkin@ispras.ru>
On Wed, Jun 11, 2025 at 10:20:10PM +0300, Fedor Pchelkin wrote:
> Number of apqn target list entries contained in 'nr_apqns' variable is
> determined by userspace via an ioctl call so the result of the product in
> calculation of size passed to memdup_user() may overflow.
>
> In this case the actual size of the allocated area and the value
> describing it won't be in sync leading to various types of unpredictable
> behaviour later.
>
> Use a proper memdup_array_user() helper which returns an error if an
> overflow is detected. Note that it is different from when nr_apqns is
> initially zero - that case is considered valid and should be handled in
> subsequent pkey_handler implementations.
>
> Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org).
>
> Fixes: f2bbc96e7cfa ("s390/pkey: add CCA AES cipher key support")
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Fedor Pchelkin <pchelkin@ispras.ru>
> ---
>
> v2: use memdup_array_user() helper (Heiko Carstens)
>
> drivers/s390/crypto/pkey_api.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
Reviewed-by: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-06-12 8:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-06-11 19:20 [PATCH v2] s390/pkey: prevent overflow in size calculation for memdup_user() Fedor Pchelkin
2025-06-12 8:48 ` Heiko Carstens [this message]
2025-06-12 9:10 ` Holger Dengler
2025-06-12 11:40 ` Alexander Gordeev
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