linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm: __nr_to_section - make it safe against overflow v2

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Date:	Mon, 05 Jan 2009 12:33:30 +0200
From:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
To:	Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>, Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: __nr_to_section - make it safe against overflow v2

On Mon, 2009-01-05 at 13:31 +0300, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
> __nr_to_section should check for array bound overflow.
> We should better get NULL dereference then silently
> pass some memory snippet out of bounds to a caller.
> 
> Also add a comment about mem_section structure.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...nvz.org>

Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>

> ---
>  include/linux/mmzone.h |   15 +++++++++++++--
>  1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> Index: linux-2.6.git/include/linux/mmzone.h
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.git.orig/include/linux/mmzone.h
> +++ linux-2.6.git/include/linux/mmzone.h
> @@ -935,6 +935,12 @@ static inline unsigned long early_pfn_to
>  
>  struct page;
>  struct page_cgroup;
> +
> +/*
> + * NOTE: sizeof(struct mem_section) _must_ be power of 2
> + * otherwise SECTION_ROOT_MASK will be broken so be
> + * really cautious while modifying this structure
> + */
>  struct mem_section {
>  	/*
>  	 * This is, logically, a pointer to an array of struct
> @@ -980,9 +986,14 @@ extern struct mem_section mem_section[NR
>  
>  static inline struct mem_section *__nr_to_section(unsigned long nr)
>  {
> -	if (!mem_section[SECTION_NR_TO_ROOT(nr)])
> +	unsigned long idx = SECTION_NR_TO_ROOT(nr);
> +
> +	if (WARN_ON(idx >= NR_SECTION_ROOTS))
> +		return NULL;
> +
> +	if (!mem_section[idx])
>  		return NULL;
> -	return &mem_section[SECTION_NR_TO_ROOT(nr)][nr & SECTION_ROOT_MASK];
> +	return &mem_section[idx][nr & SECTION_ROOT_MASK];
>  }
>  extern int __section_nr(struct mem_section* ms);
>  extern unsigned long usemap_size(void);

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