From: Aiden Bowling <aidenlbowling56@gmail.com>
To: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>,
Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org,
Aiden Bowling <aidenlbowling56@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH] kernel/sys.c: fix prctl_set_auxv to use sizeof instead of user-supplied len
Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2026 22:40:02 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260602024001.14119-2-aidenlbowling56@gmail.com> (raw)
prctl_set_auxv() passed the user-supplied 'len' to memcpy() when copying
into mm->saved_auxv, instead of sizeof(user_auxv). Since user_auxv is
already sized to the full auxv buffer, using 'len' risks a partial write
if the caller supplies a smaller value. Use sizeof(user_auxv) to always
copy the full buffer after validation.
Signed-off-by: Aiden Bowling <aidenlbowling56@gmail.com>
---
kernel/sys.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/kernel/sys.c b/kernel/sys.c
index 62e842055cc9..d3f5229649e3 100644
--- a/kernel/sys.c
+++ b/kernel/sys.c
@@ -2189,7 +2189,7 @@ static int prctl_set_auxv(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr,
BUILD_BUG_ON(sizeof(user_auxv) != sizeof(mm->saved_auxv));
task_lock(current);
- memcpy(mm->saved_auxv, user_auxv, len);
+ memcpy(mm->saved_auxv, user_auxv, sizeof(user_auxv));
task_unlock(current);
return 0;
base-commit: e43ffb69e0438cddd72aaa30898b4dc446f664f8
--
2.54.0
next reply other threads:[~2026-06-02 2:40 UTC|newest]
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2026-06-02 2:40 Aiden Bowling [this message]
2026-06-02 9:25 ` David Laight
2026-06-02 9:53 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
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2026-06-02 17:25 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-06-03 9:17 ` David Laight
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