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From: Andrea Parri <parri.andrea@gmail.com>
To: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>, Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>,
	"Guilherme G . Piccoli" <gpiccoli@igalia.com>,
	Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Colin Cross <ccross@android.com>,
	John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Andrea Parri <parri.andrea@gmail.com>,
	stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] pstore: reject persistent RAM zones too small for the buffer header
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2026 22:23:16 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260921202317.70595-3-parri.andrea@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260921202317.70595-1-parri.andrea@gmail.com>

persistent_ram_buffer_map() computes

	prz->buffer_size = size - sizeof(struct persistent_ram_buffer);

without checking that size is large enough to hold the header.  A
ramoops zone configured with a tiny size (e.g. ramoops.pmsg_size=1)
underflows buffer_size to a huge value, which defeats every bounds
check in persistent_ram_write() and persistent_ram_write_user(); a
write to /dev/pmsg0 then copies user data far past the end of the zone
and corrupts kernel memory.

Reject zones that are not larger than the buffer header.

Fixes: 404a6043385de ("staging: android: persistent_ram: handle reserving and mapping memory")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Andrea Parri <parri.andrea@gmail.com>
---
 fs/pstore/ram_core.c | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/fs/pstore/ram_core.c b/fs/pstore/ram_core.c
index b4ec8009b8dc9..ae941777037b8 100644
--- a/fs/pstore/ram_core.c
+++ b/fs/pstore/ram_core.c
@@ -505,6 +505,12 @@ static int persistent_ram_buffer_map(phys_addr_t start, phys_addr_t size,
 	prz->paddr = start;
 	prz->size = size;
 
+	if (size <= sizeof(struct persistent_ram_buffer)) {
+		pr_err("%s: persistent ram zone too small (%#llx bytes)\n",
+		       prz->label, (unsigned long long)size);
+		return -EINVAL;
+	}
+
 	if (pfn_valid(start >> PAGE_SHIFT))
 		prz->vaddr = persistent_ram_vmap(start, size, memtype);
 	else
-- 
2.53.0


  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-09-21 20:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-09-21 20:23 [PATCH 0/2] pstore: fix two ramoops error-path bugs Andrea Parri
2026-09-21 20:23 ` [PATCH 1/2] pstore: don't leave an ERR_PTR in the ramoops zone pointer Andrea Parri
2026-09-21 20:23 ` Andrea Parri [this message]
2026-09-21 21:35   ` [PATCH 2/2] pstore: reject persistent RAM zones too small for the buffer header Kees Cook
2026-09-21 22:38     ` Andrea Parri
2026-09-21 23:11       ` Kees Cook
2026-09-21 21:38 ` [PATCH 0/2] pstore: fix two ramoops error-path bugs Kees Cook

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