From: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
To: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xen/gntdev: avoid out of bounds access in case of partial gntdev_mmap()
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2017 18:54:55 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5f9794ec-1fa2-f51f-8ecf-a922646364e1@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <11e7d8e0-3cc3-3266-c799-a2b30b1636ad@oracle.com>
On 10/25/2017 12:46 PM, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
> On 10/25/2017 11:08 AM, Juergen Gross wrote:
>> In case gntdev_mmap() succeeds only partially in mapping grant pages
>> it will leave some vital information uninitialized needed later for
>> cleanup. This will lead to an out of bounds array access when unmapping
>> the already mapped pages.
>>
>> So just initialize the data needed for unmapping the pages a little bit
>> earlier.
>>
>> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
>> Reported-by: Arthur Borsboom <arthurborsboom@gmail.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
> Reviewed-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
>
Applied to for-linus-4.14c.
-boris
prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-10-26 22:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-10-25 15:08 Juergen Gross
2017-10-25 16:46 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2017-10-26 22:54 ` Boris Ostrovsky [this message]
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