Re: int overflow in io_getevents

[Dmitry Vyukov]

On Thu, Jan 7, 2016 at 4:52 PM, Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 07, 2016 at 04:37:43PM +0100, Dmitry Vyukov wrote:
>> pass ts to the function
>
> Yeah, I should have had my morning coffee before hitting send.  Updated
> below, and hopefully final.  Checked with a test program to confirm that
> the huge value of seconds in timespec correctly waits, and that negative
> or other invalid values fail with EINVAL (download from
> http://www.kvack.org/~bcrl/aio-io_getevents-timespec.c ).
>
>                 -ben
> --
> "Thought is the essence of where you are now."


Acked-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks!

> commit 49b78150bc5762c58cfb8b19a859c354cf1a71ac
> Author: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@xxxxxxxxx>
> Date:   Thu Jan 7 10:37:58 2016 -0500
>
>     aio: handle integer overflow in io_getevents() timespec usage
>
>     Dmitry Vyukov reported an integer overflow in io_getevents() when
>     running a fuzzer.  Upon investigation, the triggers appears to be that
>     an invalid value for the tv_sec or tv_nsec was passed in which is not
>     handled by timespec_to_ktime().  This patch fixes that by making
>     io_getevents() return -EINVAL when timespec_valid() checks fail.  We
>     use timespec_valid() instead of timespec_valid_strict() to avoid issues
>     caused by userspace not knowing the cutoff for KTIME_SEC_MAX.
>
>     Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@xxxxxxxxxx>
>     Signed-off-by: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> diff --git a/fs/aio.c b/fs/aio.c
> index 155f842..e0d5398 100644
> --- a/fs/aio.c
> +++ b/fs/aio.c
> @@ -1269,6 +1269,8 @@ static long read_events(struct kioctx *ctx, long min_nr, long nr,
>
>                 if (unlikely(copy_from_user(&ts, timeout, sizeof(ts))))
>                         return -EFAULT;
> +               if (!timespec_valid(&ts))
> +                       return -EINVAL;
>
>                 until = timespec_to_ktime(ts);
>         }
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