From: Armaan Sandhu <armaan.sandhu0504@gmail.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@intel.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Armaan Sandhu <armaan.sandhu0504@gmail.com>,
stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] lib/cmdline: fix get_options() count and overflow with large ranges
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2026 17:39:45 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261005213945.359905-1-armaan.sandhu0504@gmail.com> (raw)
get_range() stops writing once the array is full, but get_options()
still advances its index by the whole range. So "1-100" parsed into
four ints reports 99 numbers, and a range like "0-2147483647" wraps
the index negative and writes outside the array.
Stop once a range fills the array, bail out in validation mode before
the count overflows, and saturate the range length in get_range().
Add KUnit cases; without the fix "0-2147483647" panics the test kernel.
Only root can supply this input, so this is a robustness fix.
Fixes: 22f2e2801799 ("[PATCH] get_options to allow a hypenated range for isolcpus")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Armaan Sandhu <armaan.sandhu0504@gmail.com>
---
lib/cmdline.c | 13 ++++++++++++-
lib/tests/cmdline_kunit.c | 38 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 50 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/lib/cmdline.c b/lib/cmdline.c
index 16cce6621cec..40b98d943a9a 100644
--- a/lib/cmdline.c
+++ b/lib/cmdline.c
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
#include <linux/export.h>
#include <linux/kernel.h>
+#include <linux/overflow.h>
#include <linux/string.h>
#include <linux/ctype.h>
@@ -26,7 +27,9 @@ static int get_range(char **str, int *pint, int n)
(*str)++;
upper_range = simple_strtol((*str), NULL, 0);
- inc_counter = upper_range - *pint;
+ /* Keep the sign of the result when the difference doesn't fit */
+ if (check_sub_overflow(upper_range, *pint, &inc_counter))
+ inc_counter = upper_range < *pint ? -1 : INT_MAX;
for (x = *pint; n && x < upper_range; x++, n--)
*pint++ = x;
return inc_counter;
@@ -122,6 +125,14 @@ char *get_options(const char *str, int nints, int *ints)
range_nums = get_range((char **)&str, pint, n);
if (range_nums < 0)
break;
+ /* The range didn't fit, so the array is full */
+ if (!validate && range_nums > n) {
+ i = nints;
+ break;
+ }
+ /* Leave room for the upper number of the range */
+ if (range_nums >= INT_MAX - i)
+ break;
/*
* Decrement the result by one to leave out the
* last number in the range. The next iteration
diff --git a/lib/tests/cmdline_kunit.c b/lib/tests/cmdline_kunit.c
index 3f61ff8d3178..584fcb2c0e44 100644
--- a/lib/tests/cmdline_kunit.c
+++ b/lib/tests/cmdline_kunit.c
@@ -140,6 +140,43 @@ static void cmdline_test_range(struct kunit *test)
} while (++i < ARRAY_SIZE(cmdline_test_range_strings));
}
+static const struct {
+ const char *in;
+ int parsed[4];
+ int validated;
+} cmdline_test_range_overflow_cases[] = {
+ { "1-100", { 3, 1, 2, 3, }, 100, },
+ { "1,5-100,7", { 3, 1, 5, 6, }, 98, },
+ { "1-2147483646", { 3, 1, 2, 3, }, 2147483646, },
+ { "0-2147483647", { 3, 0, 1, 2, }, 0, },
+ { "-5-2147483647", { 3, -5, -4, -3, }, 0, },
+ { "2147483647--5", { 0, 2147483647, }, 0, },
+};
+
+static void cmdline_test_range_overflow(struct kunit *test)
+{
+ unsigned int i, j;
+
+ for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(cmdline_test_range_overflow_cases); i++) {
+ const char *in = cmdline_test_range_overflow_cases[i].in;
+ const int *e = cmdline_test_range_overflow_cases[i].parsed;
+ /* Two guard elements past the array handed to get_options() */
+ int r[ARRAY_SIZE(cmdline_test_range_overflow_cases[0].parsed) + 2];
+ int n;
+
+ memset(r, 0, sizeof(r));
+ get_options(in, ARRAY_SIZE(r) - 2, r);
+ for (j = 0; j < ARRAY_SIZE(r) - 2; j++)
+ KUNIT_EXPECT_EQ_MSG(test, r[j], e[j], "Pattern: %s at %u", in, j);
+ for (; j < ARRAY_SIZE(r); j++)
+ KUNIT_EXPECT_EQ_MSG(test, r[j], 0, "Pattern: %s out of bound at %u", in, j);
+
+ get_options(in, 0, &n);
+ KUNIT_EXPECT_EQ_MSG(test, n, cmdline_test_range_overflow_cases[i].validated,
+ "Pattern: %s (validated)", in);
+ }
+}
+
static void cmdline_test_next_arg_quoted_value(struct kunit *test)
{
char in[] = "foo=\"bar baz\" qux=1";
@@ -258,6 +295,7 @@ static struct kunit_case cmdline_test_cases[] = {
KUNIT_CASE(cmdline_test_lead_int),
KUNIT_CASE(cmdline_test_tail_int),
KUNIT_CASE(cmdline_test_range),
+ KUNIT_CASE(cmdline_test_range_overflow),
KUNIT_CASE(cmdline_test_next_arg_quoted_value),
KUNIT_CASE(cmdline_test_next_arg_bare_quote_regression),
KUNIT_CASE(cmdline_test_next_arg_mixed_tokens),
--
2.55.0
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2026-10-05 21:39 Armaan Sandhu [this message]
2026-10-07 22:00 ` Andrew Morton
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2026-10-07 23:08 ` Andrew Morton
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