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xen: fix potential integer overflow in queue_reply

Message ID 1453134547-13875-1-git-send-email-wuninsu@gmail.com (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Insu Yun Jan. 18, 2016, 4:29 p.m. UTC
When len is greater than UINT_MAX - sizeof(*rb), in next allocation,
it can overflow integer range and allocates small size of heap.
After that, memcpy will overflow the allocated heap.
Therefore, it needs to check the size of given length.

Signed-off-by: Insu Yun <wuninsu@gmail.com>
---
 drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_dev_frontend.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Comments

David Vrabel Jan. 18, 2016, 4:47 p.m. UTC | #1
On 18/01/16 16:38, David Vrabel wrote:
> On 18/01/16 16:29, Insu Yun wrote:
>> When len is greater than UINT_MAX - sizeof(*rb), in next allocation,
>> it can overflow integer range and allocates small size of heap.
>> After that, memcpy will overflow the allocated heap.
>> Therefore, it needs to check the size of given length.
> [...]
>> --- a/drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_dev_frontend.c
>> +++ b/drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_dev_frontend.c
>> @@ -186,7 +186,7 @@ static int queue_reply(struct list_head *queue, const void *data, size_t len)
>>  {
>>  	struct read_buffer *rb;
>>  
>> -	if (len == 0)
>> +	if (len == 0 || len >= UINT_MAX - sizeof(*rb))
>                                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> Please check
> 
>     len > XENSTORE_PAYLOAD_MAX
> 
> instead.

And return -EINVAL in this case (not zero).

David
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diff --git a/drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_dev_frontend.c b/drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_dev_frontend.c
index 9433e46..b45ed69 100644
--- a/drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_dev_frontend.c
+++ b/drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_dev_frontend.c
@@ -186,7 +186,7 @@  static int queue_reply(struct list_head *queue, const void *data, size_t len)
 {
 	struct read_buffer *rb;
 
-	if (len == 0)
+	if (len == 0 || len >= UINT_MAX - sizeof(*rb))
 		return 0;
 
 	rb = kmalloc(sizeof(*rb) + len, GFP_KERNEL);