* [PATCH] md/raid1: Prevent excessively large memory allocations
@ 2026-10-28 15:27 Gowtham S Bhushan
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From: Gowtham S Bhushan @ 2026-10-28 15:27 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: song, yukuai
Cc: magiclinan, xiao, linux-raid, linux-kernel,
syzbot+fc26c366038b54261e53, Gowtham S Bhushan,
syzbot+75f49ec552cc74d9d69b, stable, syzkaller-bugs
Validate mddev->raid_disks before memory allocation to prevent integer
wrap-around or allocating an unreasonably large chunk of memory that
exceeds KMALLOC_MAX_SIZE boundaries.
Reported-by: syzbot+75f49ec552cc74d9d69b@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=75f49ec552cc74d9d69b
Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Tested-by: syzbot+75f49ec552cc74d9d69b@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: syzkaller-bugs@googlegroups.com
Signed-off-by: Gowtham S Bhushan <gowtham398gs@gmail.com>
---
drivers/md/raid1.c | 10 ++++++++++
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/md/raid1.c b/drivers/md/raid1.c
index f0646fb24371..88038d535727 100644
--- a/drivers/md/raid1.c
+++ b/drivers/md/raid1.c
@@ -3050,6 +3050,16 @@ static struct r1conf *setup_conf(struct mddev *mddev)
struct md_rdev *rdev;
size_t r1bio_size;
int err = -ENOMEM;
+ size_t calculated_size;
+
+ /* prevent baseline integer wrap-around anomalies first*/
+ /* Safely calculate size; overflows automatically saturate to SIZE_MAX */
+
+ calculated_size = size_add(sizeof(struct r1conf),
+ size_mul(mddev->raid_disks, sizeof(struct r1bio)));
+
+ if (mddev->raid_disks <= 0 || calculated_size >= KMALLOC_MAX_SIZE)
+ return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
conf = kzalloc_obj(struct r1conf);
if (!conf)
--
2.56.0
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