Re: [PATCH v2 2/5] kernel: kexec: copy user-array safely

From: Baoquan He
Date: Sun Sep 10 2023 - 20:26:56 EST


On 09/08/23 at 09:59pm, Philipp Stanner wrote:
> Currently, there is no overflow-check with memdup_user().
>
> Use the new function memdup_array_user() instead of memdup_user() for
> duplicating the user-space array safely.
>
> Suggested-by: David Airlie <airlied@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Philipp Stanner <pstanner@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> kernel/kexec.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/kexec.c b/kernel/kexec.c
> index 107f355eac10..8f35a5a42af8 100644
> --- a/kernel/kexec.c
> +++ b/kernel/kexec.c
> @@ -247,7 +247,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE4(kexec_load, unsigned long, entry, unsigned long, nr_segments,
> ((flags & KEXEC_ARCH_MASK) != KEXEC_ARCH_DEFAULT))
> return -EINVAL;
>
> - ksegments = memdup_user(segments, nr_segments * sizeof(ksegments[0]));
> + ksegments = memdup_array_user(segments, nr_segments, sizeof(ksegments[0]));

LGTM,

Acked-by: Baoquan He <bhe@xxxxxxxxxx>

> if (IS_ERR(ksegments))
> return PTR_ERR(ksegments);
>
> --
> 2.41.0
>
>
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