[PATCH] lib/mpi: Fix buffer overrun when SG is too long

Herbert Xu herbert at gondor.apana.org.au
Tue Dec 20 07:24:48 UTC 2022


On Mon, Dec 19, 2022 at 09:49:29AM +0100, Roberto Sassu wrote:
>
> do you have any news on this bug?

Thanks for the reminder.  Could you please try this patch?

---8<---
The helper mpi_read_raw_from_sgl ignores the second parameter
nbytes when reading the SG list and may overrun its own buffer
because it only allocates enough memory according to nbytes.

Fixes: 2d4d1eea540b ("lib/mpi: Add mpi sgl helpers")
Reported-by: Roberto Sassu <roberto.sassu at huaweicloud.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert at gondor.apana.org.au>

diff --git a/lib/mpi/mpicoder.c b/lib/mpi/mpicoder.c
index 39c4c6731094..6bffc68c1a5a 100644
--- a/lib/mpi/mpicoder.c
+++ b/lib/mpi/mpicoder.c
@@ -494,17 +494,15 @@ MPI mpi_read_raw_from_sgl(struct scatterlist *sgl, unsigned int nbytes)
 	val->sign = 0;
 	val->nlimbs = nlimbs;
 
-	if (nbytes == 0)
-		return val;
-
 	j = nlimbs - 1;
 	a = 0;
 	z = BYTES_PER_MPI_LIMB - nbytes % BYTES_PER_MPI_LIMB;
 	z %= BYTES_PER_MPI_LIMB;
 
-	while (sg_miter_next(&miter)) {
+	while (nbytes && sg_miter_next(&miter)) {
 		buff = miter.addr;
-		len = miter.length;
+		len = min_t(unsigned, miter.length, nbytes);
+		nbytes -= len;
 
 		for (x = 0; x < len; x++) {
 			a <<= 8;
-- 
Email: Herbert Xu <herbert at gondor.apana.org.au>
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