[3.16.y-ckt stable] Patch "rds: fix an integer overflow test in rds_info_getsockopt()" has been added to staging queue

Luis Henriques luis.henriques at canonical.com
Thu Sep 3 10:37:08 UTC 2015


This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    rds: fix an integer overflow test in rds_info_getsockopt()

to the linux-3.16.y-queue branch of the 3.16.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

    http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-3.16.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.16.7-ckt17.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.16.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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>From a7fc16eff90922ba52faace0da2b62937a66abe6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter at oracle.com>
Date: Sat, 1 Aug 2015 15:33:26 +0300
Subject: rds: fix an integer overflow test in rds_info_getsockopt()

commit 468b732b6f76b138c0926eadf38ac88467dcd271 upstream.

"len" is a signed integer.  We check that len is not negative, so it
goes from zero to INT_MAX.  PAGE_SIZE is unsigned long so the comparison
is type promoted to unsigned long.  ULONG_MAX - 4095 is a higher than
INT_MAX so the condition can never be true.

I don't know if this is harmful but it seems safe to limit "len" to
INT_MAX - 4095.

Fixes: a8c879a7ee98 ('RDS: Info and stats')
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter at oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 net/rds/info.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/rds/info.c b/net/rds/info.c
index 9a6b4f66187c..140a44a5f7b7 100644
--- a/net/rds/info.c
+++ b/net/rds/info.c
@@ -176,7 +176,7 @@ int rds_info_getsockopt(struct socket *sock, int optname, char __user *optval,

 	/* check for all kinds of wrapping and the like */
 	start = (unsigned long)optval;
-	if (len < 0 || len + PAGE_SIZE - 1 < len || start + len < start) {
+	if (len < 0 || len > INT_MAX - PAGE_SIZE + 1 || start + len < start) {
 		ret = -EINVAL;
 		goto out;
 	}




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