Re: [PATCH V4 1/2] ptr_ring: fail early if queue occupies more than KMALLOC_MAX_SIZE

From: Jason Wang
Date: Sat Feb 10 2018 - 21:46:45 EST




On 2018å02æ11æ 03:32, Eric Biggers wrote:
Hi Jason,

On Fri, Feb 09, 2018 at 05:45:49PM +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
To avoid slab to warn about exceeded size, fail early if queue
occupies more than KMALLOC_MAX_SIZE.

Reported-by: syzbot+e4d4f9ddd4295539735d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Fixes: 2e0ab8ca83c12 ("ptr_ring: array based FIFO for pointers")
Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/ptr_ring.h | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/linux/ptr_ring.h b/include/linux/ptr_ring.h
index 1883d61..6051a5f 100644
--- a/include/linux/ptr_ring.h
+++ b/include/linux/ptr_ring.h
@@ -466,6 +466,8 @@ static inline int ptr_ring_consume_batched_bh(struct ptr_ring *r,
static inline void **__ptr_ring_init_queue_alloc(unsigned int size, gfp_t gfp)
{
+ if (size * sizeof(void *) > KMALLOC_MAX_SIZE)
+ return NULL;
Are you sure that size can't be over 0x40000000? The proper way to write this
(safe from integer overflow) would be:

if (size > KMALLOC_MAX_SIZE / sizeof(void *))
return NULL;

- Eric

Good catch.

Will post a fix.

Thanks