Patch "phonet: Check input from user before allocating" has been added to the 3.0-stable tree

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

phonet: Check input from user before allocating

to the 3.0-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
phonet-check-input-from-user-before-allocating.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.0 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

From: Sasha Levin <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2012 12:07:45 +0000
Subject: phonet: Check input from user before allocating

From: Sasha Levin <[email protected]>

[ Upstream commit bcf1b70ac6eb0ed8286c66e6bf37cb747cbaa04c ]

A phonet packet is limited to USHRT_MAX bytes, this is never checked during tx which means that the user can specify any size he wishes, and the kernel will attempt to allocate that size.

In the good case, it'll lead to the following warning, but it may also cause the kernel to kick in the OOM and kill a random task on the server.

[ 8921.744094] WARNING: at mm/page_alloc.c:2255 __alloc_pages_slowpath+0x65/0x730()
[ 8921.749770] Pid: 5081, comm: trinity Tainted: G        W    3.4.0-rc1-next-20120402-sasha #46
[ 8921.756672] Call Trace:
[ 8921.758185]  [<ffffffff810b2ba7>] warn_slowpath_common+0x87/0xb0
[ 8921.762868]  [<ffffffff810b2be5>] warn_slowpath_null+0x15/0x20
[ 8921.765399]  [<ffffffff8117eae5>] __alloc_pages_slowpath+0x65/0x730
[ 8921.769226]  [<ffffffff81179c8a>] ? zone_watermark_ok+0x1a/0x20
[ 8921.771686]  [<ffffffff8117d045>] ? get_page_from_freelist+0x625/0x660
[ 8921.773919]  [<ffffffff8117f3a8>] __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x1f8/0x240
[ 8921.776248]  [<ffffffff811c03e0>] kmalloc_large_node+0x70/0xc0
[ 8921.778294]  [<ffffffff811c4bd4>] __kmalloc_node_track_caller+0x34/0x1c0
[ 8921.780847]  [<ffffffff821b0e3c>] ? sock_alloc_send_pskb+0xbc/0x260
[ 8921.783179]  [<ffffffff821b3c65>] __alloc_skb+0x75/0x170
[ 8921.784971]  [<ffffffff821b0e3c>] sock_alloc_send_pskb+0xbc/0x260
[ 8921.787111]  [<ffffffff821b002e>] ? release_sock+0x7e/0x90
[ 8921.788973]  [<ffffffff821b0ff0>] sock_alloc_send_skb+0x10/0x20
[ 8921.791052]  [<ffffffff824cfc20>] pep_sendmsg+0x60/0x380
[ 8921.792931]  [<ffffffff824cb4a6>] ? pn_socket_bind+0x156/0x180
[ 8921.794917]  [<ffffffff824cb50f>] ? pn_socket_autobind+0x3f/0x90
[ 8921.797053]  [<ffffffff824cb63f>] pn_socket_sendmsg+0x4f/0x70
[ 8921.798992]  [<ffffffff821ab8e7>] sock_aio_write+0x187/0x1b0
[ 8921.801395]  [<ffffffff810e325e>] ? sub_preempt_count+0xae/0xf0
[ 8921.803501]  [<ffffffff8111842c>] ? __lock_acquire+0x42c/0x4b0
[ 8921.805505]  [<ffffffff821ab760>] ? __sock_recv_ts_and_drops+0x140/0x140
[ 8921.807860]  [<ffffffff811e07cc>] do_sync_readv_writev+0xbc/0x110
[ 8921.809986]  [<ffffffff811958e7>] ? might_fault+0x97/0xa0
[ 8921.811998]  [<ffffffff817bd99e>] ? security_file_permission+0x1e/0x90
[ 8921.814595]  [<ffffffff811e17e2>] do_readv_writev+0xe2/0x1e0
[ 8921.816702]  [<ffffffff810b8dac>] ? do_setitimer+0x1ac/0x200
[ 8921.818819]  [<ffffffff810e2ec1>] ? get_parent_ip+0x11/0x50
[ 8921.820863]  [<ffffffff810e325e>] ? sub_preempt_count+0xae/0xf0
[ 8921.823318]  [<ffffffff811e1926>] vfs_writev+0x46/0x60
[ 8921.825219]  [<ffffffff811e1a3f>] sys_writev+0x4f/0xb0
[ 8921.827127]  [<ffffffff82658039>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
[ 8921.829384] ---[ end trace dffe390f30db9eb7 ]---

---
 net/phonet/pep.c |    3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

@@ -1045,6 +1045,9 @@ static int pep_sendmsg(struct kiocb *ioc
 	int flags = msg->msg_flags;
 	int err, done;
 
+	if (len > USHRT_MAX)
+		return -EMSGSIZE;
+
 	if ((msg->msg_flags & ~(MSG_DONTWAIT|MSG_EOR|MSG_NOSIGNAL|
 				MSG_CMSG_COMPAT)) ||
 			!(msg->msg_flags & MSG_EOR))

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-3.0/phonet-check-input-from-user-before-allocating.patch