[SRU][Zesty][PATCH 1/2] fix unbalanced page refcounting in bio_map_user_iov
Kleber Sacilotto de Souza
kleber.souza at canonical.com
Fri Dec 8 13:38:47 UTC 2017
From: Vitaly Mayatskikh <v.mayatskih at gmail.com>
bio_map_user_iov and bio_unmap_user do unbalanced pages refcounting if
IO vector has small consecutive buffers belonging to the same page.
bio_add_pc_page merges them into one, but the page reference is never
dropped.
Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Vitaly Mayatskikh <v.mayatskih at gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro at zeniv.linux.org.uk>
CVE-2017-12190
(cherry picked from commit 95d78c28b5a85bacbc29b8dba7c04babb9b0d467)
Signed-off-by: Kleber Sacilotto de Souza <kleber.souza at canonical.com>
---
block/bio.c | 8 ++++++++
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
diff --git a/block/bio.c b/block/bio.c
index 17ece5b40a2f..13185834b253 100644
--- a/block/bio.c
+++ b/block/bio.c
@@ -1372,6 +1372,7 @@ struct bio *bio_map_user_iov(struct request_queue *q,
offset = offset_in_page(uaddr);
for (j = cur_page; j < page_limit; j++) {
unsigned int bytes = PAGE_SIZE - offset;
+ unsigned short prev_bi_vcnt = bio->bi_vcnt;
if (len <= 0)
break;
@@ -1386,6 +1387,13 @@ struct bio *bio_map_user_iov(struct request_queue *q,
bytes)
break;
+ /*
+ * check if vector was merged with previous
+ * drop page reference if needed
+ */
+ if (bio->bi_vcnt == prev_bi_vcnt)
+ put_page(pages[j]);
+
len -= bytes;
offset = 0;
}
--
2.14.1
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