Re: [PATCH net-next] ptr_ring: fix integer overflow

[Jason Wang]

On 2018å01æ25æ 21:45, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 25, 2018 at 03:31:42PM +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
> > We try to allocate one more entry for lockless peeking. The adding
> > operation may overflow which causes zero to be passed to kmalloc().
> > In this case, it returns ZERO_SIZE_PTR without any notice by ptr
> > ring. Try to do producing or consuming on such ring will lead NULL
> > dereference. Fix this detect and fail early.
> >
> > Fixes: bcecb4bbf88a ("net: ptr_ring: otherwise safe empty checks can overrun array bounds")
> > Reported-by:syzbot+87678bcf753b44c39b67@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Cc: John Fastabend<john.fastabend@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Jason Wang<jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Ugh that's just way too ugly.
> I'll work on dropping the extra + 1 - but calling this
> function with -1 size is the real source of the bug.
> Do you know how come we do that?

It looks e.g try to change tx_queue_len to UINT_MAX. And we probably 
can't prevent user form trying to do this?

Thanks