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psi: Fix OOB write when writing 0 bytes to psi files

PATCH Applied Suren Baghdasaryan 4 participants 4 messages Feb 3, 2020 – Feb 11, 2020

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Suren Baghdasaryan

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PATCH 1/1 psi: Fix OOB write when writing 0 bytes to psi files

Issuing write() with count parameter set to 0 on any file under /proc/pressure/ will cause an OOB write because of the access to buf[buf_size-1] when NUL-termination is performed. Fix this by checking for buf_size to be non-zero.

---
 kernel/sched/psi.c | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
kernel/sched/psi.c +3 -0
index db7b50bba3f1..38ccd49b9bf6 100644
@@ -1199,6 +1199,9 @@ static ssize_t psi_write(struct file *file, const char __user *user_buf,
 	if (static_branch_likely(&psi_disabled))
 		return -EOPNOTSUPP;
 
+	if (!nbytes)
+		return -EINVAL;
+
 	buf_size = min(nbytes, sizeof(buf));
 	if (copy_from_user(buf, user_buf, buf_size))
 		return -EFAULT;
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[tip: sched/urgent] sched/psi: Fix OOB write when writing 0 bytes to PSI files

In reply to Suren Baghdasaryan
The following commit has been merged into the sched/urgent branch of tip:

The following commit has been merged into the sched/urgent branch of tip:

Commit-ID:     6fcca0fa48118e6d63733eb4644c6cd880c15b8f
Gitweb:        https://git.kernel.org/tip/6fcca0fa48118e6d63733eb4644c6cd880c15b8f
Author:        Suren Baghdasaryan <[email protected]>
AuthorDate:    Mon, 03 Feb 2020 13:22:16 -08:00
Committer:     Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
CommitterDate: Tue, 11 Feb 2020 13:00:02 +01:00

sched/psi: Fix OOB write when writing 0 bytes to PSI files

Issuing write() with count parameter set to 0 on any file under /proc/pressure/ will cause an OOB write because of the access to buf[buf_size-1] when NUL-termination is performed. Fix this by checking for buf_size to be non-zero.

---
 kernel/sched/psi.c | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
kernel/sched/psi.c +3 -0
index db7b50b..38ccd49 100644
@@ -1199,6 +1199,9 @@ static ssize_t psi_write(struct file *file, const char __user *user_buf,
 	if (static_branch_likely(&psi_disabled))
 		return -EOPNOTSUPP;
 
+	if (!nbytes)
+		return -EINVAL;
+
 	buf_size = min(nbytes, sizeof(buf));
 	if (copy_from_user(buf, user_buf, buf_size))
 		return -EFAULT;