[PATCH 1/1] pagemap: fix buffer overflow in add_page_map()

From: yonghua zheng
Date: Fri Aug 09 2013 - 01:17:16 EST


Hi,

Recently we met quite a lot of random kernel panic issues after enable
CONFIG_PROC_PAGE_MONITOR in kernel, after debuggint sometime we found
this has something to do with following bug in pagemap:

In struc pagemapread:

struct pagemapread {
int pos, len;
pagemap_entry_t *buffer;
bool v2;
};

pos is number of PM_ENTRY_BYTES in buffer, but len is the size of buffer,
it is a mistake to compare pos and len in add_page_map() for checking
buffer is full or not, and this can lead to buffer overflow and random
kernel panic issue.

Correct len to be total number of PM_ENTRY_BYTES in buffer.

Signed-off-by: Yonghua Zheng <younghua.zheng@xxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/proc/task_mmu.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/proc/task_mmu.c b/fs/proc/task_mmu.c
index dbf61f6..cb98853 100644
--- a/fs/proc/task_mmu.c
+++ b/fs/proc/task_mmu.c
@@ -1116,8 +1116,8 @@ static ssize_t pagemap_read(struct file *file,
char __user *buf,
goto out_task;

pm.v2 = soft_dirty_cleared;
- pm.len = PM_ENTRY_BYTES * (PAGEMAP_WALK_SIZE >> PAGE_SHIFT);
- pm.buffer = kmalloc(pm.len, GFP_TEMPORARY);
+ pm.len = (PAGEMAP_WALK_SIZE >> PAGE_SHIFT);
+ pm.buffer = kmalloc(pm.len * PM_ENTRY_BYTES, GFP_TEMPORARY);
ret = -ENOMEM;
if (!pm.buffer)
goto out_task;

--
1.7.9.5
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