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Jeff Moyer
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Tavis Ormandy pointed out that do_io_submit does not do proper bounds checking on the passed-in iocb array: if (unlikely(nr < 0)) return -EINVAL; if (unlikely(!access_ok(VERIFY_READ, iocbpp, (nr*sizeof(iocbpp))))) return -EFAULT; ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ The attached patch checks for overflow, and if it is detected, the number of iocbs submitted is scaled down to a number that will fit in the long. This is an ok thing to do, as sys_io_submit is documented as returning the number of iocbs submitted, so callers should handle a return value of less than the 'nr' argument passed in. Reported-by:Tavis Ormandy <taviso@cmpxchg8b.com> Signed-off-by:
Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>