linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 02/10] module: fix out-of-range memory access

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Date:	Thu, 19 Feb 2009 23:08:04 +1100
From:	Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au>
To:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
Cc:	rusty@...tcorp.com.au, tglx@...utronix.de, x86@...nel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, hpa@...or.com, jeremy@...p.org,
	cpw@....com, mingo@...e.hu
Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/10] module: fix out-of-range memory access

On Wednesday 18 February 2009 23:04:28 Tejun Heo wrote:
> Impact: subtle memory access bug fix
>
> percpu_modalloc() may access pcpu_size[-1].  The access won't change
> the value by itself but it still is read/write access and dangerous.
> Fix it.

Ditto for this one...

>
> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
> ---
>  kernel/module.c |   14 ++++++++------
>  1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/module.c b/kernel/module.c
> index ba22484..d54a63e 100644
> --- a/kernel/module.c
> +++ b/kernel/module.c
> @@ -426,12 +426,14 @@ static void *percpu_modalloc(unsigned long size,
> unsigned long align, continue;
>
>  		/* Transfer extra to previous block. */
> -		if (pcpu_size[i-1] < 0)
> -			pcpu_size[i-1] -= extra;
> -		else
> -			pcpu_size[i-1] += extra;
> -		pcpu_size[i] -= extra;
> -		ptr += extra;
> +		if (extra) {
> +			if (pcpu_size[i-1] < 0)
> +				pcpu_size[i-1] -= extra;
> +			else
> +				pcpu_size[i-1] += extra;
> +			pcpu_size[i] -= extra;
> +			ptr += extra;
> +		}
>
>  		/* Split block if warranted */
>  		if (pcpu_size[i] - size > sizeof(unsigned long))


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