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

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Date:   Fri,  8 Sep 2023 21:59:41 +0200
From:   Philipp Stanner <pstanner@...hat.com>
To:     Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        Andy Shevchenko <andy@...nel.org>,
        Eric Biederman <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
        Christian Brauner <brauner@...nel.org>,
        David Disseldorp <ddiss@...e.de>,
        Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@...nel.org>,
        Siddh Raman Pant <code@...dh.me>,
        Nick Alcock <nick.alcock@...cle.com>,
        Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@...ux.intel.com>,
        Maxime Ripard <mripard@...nel.org>,
        Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@...e.de>,
        David Airlie <airlied@...il.com>,
        Daniel Vetter <daniel@...ll.ch>, Zack Rusin <zackr@...are.com>
Cc:     VMware Graphics Reviewers <linux-graphics-maintainer@...are.com>,
        dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        kexec@...ts.infradead.org, linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org,
        Philipp Stanner <pstanner@...hat.com>,
        David Airlie <airlied@...hat.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2 2/5] kernel: kexec: copy user-array safely

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@...hat.com>
Signed-off-by: Philipp Stanner <pstanner@...hat.com>
---
 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]));
 	if (IS_ERR(ksegments))
 		return PTR_ERR(ksegments);
 
-- 
2.41.0