Re: [PATCH v2] tty: fix when iov_iter_count() returns 0 in tty_write()

From: Jiri Slaby
Date: Fri Feb 19 2021 - 04:18:44 EST


On 17. 02. 21, 16:55, Sabyrzhan Tasbolatov wrote:
syzbot found WARNING in iov_iter_revert[1] when iov_iter_count() returns 0,
therefore INT_MAX is passed to iov_iter_revert() causing > MAX_RW_COUNT
warning.

static inline ssize_t do_tty_write()
{
..
size_t count = iov_iter_count(from);
..
size_t size = count;
if (ret != size)
iov_iter_revert(from, size-ret);

[1] WARNING: lib/iov_iter.c:1090
Call Trace:
do_tty_write drivers/tty/tty_io.c:967 [inline]
file_tty_write.constprop.0+0x55f/0x8f0 drivers/tty/tty_io.c:1048
call_write_iter include/linux/fs.h:1901 [inline]
new_sync_write+0x426/0x650 fs/read_write.c:518
vfs_write+0x791/0xa30 fs/read_write.c:605
ksys_write+0x12d/0x250 fs/read_write.c:658

Fixes: 9bb48c82aced ("tty: implement write_iter")
Reported-by: syzbot+3d2c27c2b7dc2a94814d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Sabyrzhan Tasbolatov <snovitoll@xxxxxxxxx>
---

v2: Fixed "Fixed" tag to proper commit and changed write return to -EFAULT
as this statement is valid, tested via strace:

write(3, NULL, 0) = -1 EFAULT (Bad address)

Updated to -EFAULT, should be a valid exit code as
copy_from_iter(.., .., from) returns -EFAULT as well if *from is invalid
address.

Exactly, EFAULT is for invalid memory accesses. But this should be IMO EINVAL as it's an invalid argument.

BTW what's the reason vfs calls ->write with zero count of iter?

Nit, you need a ' ' before your '(' character here, otherwise the
linux-next scripts will complain.

Also, you got the git commit id wrong, so this needs to be fixed up
anyway. You are pointing to a merge point, I doubt that's what you want
to point to here, right?

Thanks!
---
drivers/tty/tty_io.c | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/tty/tty_io.c b/drivers/tty/tty_io.c
index 816e709afa56..e1460cad8b7d 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/tty_io.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/tty_io.c
@@ -905,6 +905,9 @@ static inline ssize_t do_tty_write(
ssize_t ret, written = 0;
unsigned int chunk;
+ if (!count)
+ return -EFAULT;
+
ret = tty_write_lock(tty, file->f_flags & O_NDELAY);
if (ret < 0)
return ret;



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