[PATCH] phonet: Check input from user before allocating

From: Sasha Levin
Date: Mon Apr 02 2012 - 14:31:47 EST


A phonet packet is limited to USHRT_MAX bytes, this is never checked during
tx which means that the user can specify any size he wishes, and the kernel
will attempt to allocate that size.

In the good case, it'll lead to the following warning, but it may also cause
the kernel to kick in the OOM and kill a random task on the server.

[ 8921.744094] WARNING: at mm/page_alloc.c:2255 __alloc_pages_slowpath+0x65/0x730()
[ 8921.749770] Pid: 5081, comm: trinity Tainted: G W 3.4.0-rc1-next-20120402-sasha #46
[ 8921.756672] Call Trace:
[ 8921.758185] [<ffffffff810b2ba7>] warn_slowpath_common+0x87/0xb0
[ 8921.762868] [<ffffffff810b2be5>] warn_slowpath_null+0x15/0x20
[ 8921.765399] [<ffffffff8117eae5>] __alloc_pages_slowpath+0x65/0x730
[ 8921.769226] [<ffffffff81179c8a>] ? zone_watermark_ok+0x1a/0x20
[ 8921.771686] [<ffffffff8117d045>] ? get_page_from_freelist+0x625/0x660
[ 8921.773919] [<ffffffff8117f3a8>] __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x1f8/0x240
[ 8921.776248] [<ffffffff811c03e0>] kmalloc_large_node+0x70/0xc0
[ 8921.778294] [<ffffffff811c4bd4>] __kmalloc_node_track_caller+0x34/0x1c0
[ 8921.780847] [<ffffffff821b0e3c>] ? sock_alloc_send_pskb+0xbc/0x260
[ 8921.783179] [<ffffffff821b3c65>] __alloc_skb+0x75/0x170
[ 8921.784971] [<ffffffff821b0e3c>] sock_alloc_send_pskb+0xbc/0x260
[ 8921.787111] [<ffffffff821b002e>] ? release_sock+0x7e/0x90
[ 8921.788973] [<ffffffff821b0ff0>] sock_alloc_send_skb+0x10/0x20
[ 8921.791052] [<ffffffff824cfc20>] pep_sendmsg+0x60/0x380
[ 8921.792931] [<ffffffff824cb4a6>] ? pn_socket_bind+0x156/0x180
[ 8921.794917] [<ffffffff824cb50f>] ? pn_socket_autobind+0x3f/0x90
[ 8921.797053] [<ffffffff824cb63f>] pn_socket_sendmsg+0x4f/0x70
[ 8921.798992] [<ffffffff821ab8e7>] sock_aio_write+0x187/0x1b0
[ 8921.801395] [<ffffffff810e325e>] ? sub_preempt_count+0xae/0xf0
[ 8921.803501] [<ffffffff8111842c>] ? __lock_acquire+0x42c/0x4b0
[ 8921.805505] [<ffffffff821ab760>] ? __sock_recv_ts_and_drops+0x140/0x140
[ 8921.807860] [<ffffffff811e07cc>] do_sync_readv_writev+0xbc/0x110
[ 8921.809986] [<ffffffff811958e7>] ? might_fault+0x97/0xa0
[ 8921.811998] [<ffffffff817bd99e>] ? security_file_permission+0x1e/0x90
[ 8921.814595] [<ffffffff811e17e2>] do_readv_writev+0xe2/0x1e0
[ 8921.816702] [<ffffffff810b8dac>] ? do_setitimer+0x1ac/0x200
[ 8921.818819] [<ffffffff810e2ec1>] ? get_parent_ip+0x11/0x50
[ 8921.820863] [<ffffffff810e325e>] ? sub_preempt_count+0xae/0xf0
[ 8921.823318] [<ffffffff811e1926>] vfs_writev+0x46/0x60
[ 8921.825219] [<ffffffff811e1a3f>] sys_writev+0x4f/0xb0
[ 8921.827127] [<ffffffff82658039>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
[ 8921.829384] ---[ end trace dffe390f30db9eb7 ]---

Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@xxxxxxxxx>
---
net/phonet/pep.c | 3 +++
1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/phonet/pep.c b/net/phonet/pep.c
index 9f60008..caee99e 100644
--- a/net/phonet/pep.c
+++ b/net/phonet/pep.c
@@ -1130,6 +1130,9 @@ static int pep_sendmsg(struct kiocb *iocb, struct sock *sk,
int flags = msg->msg_flags;
int err, done;

+ if (len > USHRT_MAX)
+ return -E2BIG;
+
if ((msg->msg_flags & ~(MSG_DONTWAIT|MSG_EOR|MSG_NOSIGNAL|
MSG_CMSG_COMPAT)) ||
!(msg->msg_flags & MSG_EOR))
--
1.7.8.5

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