[PATCH] tomoyo: prevent bad buffer size in tracing_cpumask_write

Tetsuo Handa penguin-kernel at I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp
Mon Dec 16 10:06:01 UTC 2024


On 2024/12/16 17:19, Lizhi Xu wrote:
> User input a too large buffer size 0xfffffdeful, although it is truncated to
> MAX_RW_COUNT in vfs_write, its value is still too large, causing warning when
> allocating memory in tomoyo_write_control.
> 
> Add a check for it to avoid this case.

Thank you for a patch. But I don't think this fix is correct, for one can make
head->writebuf_size too large by writing chunks without new line for many times.

> 
> Reported-by: syzbot+7536f77535e5210a5c76 at syzkaller.appspotmail.com
> Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=7536f77535e5210a5c76
> Tested-by: syzbot+7536f77535e5210a5c76 at syzkaller.appspotmail.com
> Signed-off-by: Lizhi Xu <lizhi.xu at windriver.com>
> ---
>  security/tomoyo/common.c | 2 ++
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/security/tomoyo/common.c b/security/tomoyo/common.c
> index 5c7b059a332a..f63388c2fffd 100644
> --- a/security/tomoyo/common.c
> +++ b/security/tomoyo/common.c
> @@ -2654,6 +2654,8 @@ ssize_t tomoyo_write_control(struct tomoyo_io_buffer *head,
>  
>  	if (!head->write)
>  		return -EINVAL;
> +	if (avail_len > KMALLOC_MAX_SIZE)
> +		return -EINVAL;
>  	if (mutex_lock_interruptible(&head->io_sem))
>  		return -EINTR;
>  	cp0 = head->write_buf;




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