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From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@linaro.org>
To: Zhihao Cheng <chengzhihao1@huawei.com>
Cc: "Michał Kępień" <kernel@kempniu.pl>,
	"Miquel Raynal" <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com>,
	"Richard Weinberger" <richard@nod.at>,
	"Vignesh Raghavendra" <vigneshr@ti.com>,
	linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mtdchar: fix integer overflow in read/write ioctls
Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2024 10:37:34 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <0bc9812c-135a-49b8-aed8-67ee4e3d6d6d@stanley.mountain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fabbceb3-90a3-2cc8-c664-e53fcd504393@huawei.com>

On Mon, Dec 09, 2024 at 02:27:58PM +0800, Zhihao Cheng wrote:
> 在 2024/12/8 1:05, Dan Carpenter 写道:
> > On Sat, Dec 07, 2024 at 12:17:33PM +0800, Zhihao Cheng wrote:
> > > 在 2024/12/7 4:26, Dan Carpenter 写道:
> > > > The "req.start" and "req.len" variables are u64 values that come from the
> > > > user at the start of the function.  We mask away the high 32 bits of
> > > > "req.len" so that's capped at U32_MAX but the "req.start" variable can go
> > > > up to U64_MAX.
> > > > 
> > > > Use check_add_overflow() to fix this bug.
> > > > 
> > > > Fixes: 6420ac0af95d ("mtdchar: prevent unbounded allocation in MEMWRITE ioctl")
> > > 
> > > Hi, Dan. Why this fix tag? I think the adding result('req.start' and
> > > 'req.len') could be overflow too before this commit.
> > > 
> > 
> > I've looked at this again, and I still don't see the bug before the
> > commit.  Secondly, commit a1eda864c04c ("mtdchar: prevent integer
> > overflow in a safety check") is missing a Fixes tag but the message says
> > that it's this commit which introduced the bug.
> 
> Ah, I see. There is not an addition operation for 'req.start' and 'req.len'
> until commit 6420ac0af95d("mtdchar: prevent unbounded allocation in MEMWRITE
> ioctl") and 095bb6e44eb1("mtdchar: add MEMREAD ioctl"), so I guess the there
> should be two fix tags?

Ah, sure.  I can tag both those commits.

regards,
dan carpenter


      reply	other threads:[~2024-12-09  7:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-12-06 20:26 Dan Carpenter
2024-12-07  4:17 ` Zhihao Cheng
2024-12-07 17:05   ` Dan Carpenter
2024-12-09  6:27     ` Zhihao Cheng
2024-12-09  7:37       ` Dan Carpenter [this message]

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