linux-kernel - Re: [050/107] block: check for proper length of iov entries earlier in blk_rq_map_user

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Date:	Fri, 04 Nov 2011 15:24:16 +0000
From:	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>, Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>,
	Xiaotian Feng <dfeng@...hat.com>,
	Jens Axboe <jaxboe@...ionio.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk
Subject: Re: [050/107] block: check for proper length of iov entries earlier
 in blk_rq_map_user_iov()

On Wed, 2011-11-02 at 15:14 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> 2.6.32-longterm review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let us know.
> 
> ------------------
> 
> From: Xiaotian Feng <dfeng@...hat.com>
> 
> commit 5478755616ae2ef1ce144dded589b62b2a50d575 upstream.
> 
> commit 9284bcf checks for proper length of iov entries in
> blk_rq_map_user_iov(). But if the map is unaligned, kernel
> will break out the loop without checking for the proper length.
> So we need to check the proper length before the unalign check.

This will catch an unaligned zero-length entry.  But there's still no
check for zero-length iov entries *after* the unaligned entry.

[...]
> --- a/block/blk-map.c
> +++ b/block/blk-map.c
> @@ -201,12 +201,13 @@ int blk_rq_map_user_iov(struct request_q
>  	for (i = 0; i < iov_count; i++) {
>  		unsigned long uaddr = (unsigned long)iov[i].iov_base;
>  
> +		if (!iov[i].iov_len)
> +			return -EINVAL;
> +
>  		if (uaddr & queue_dma_alignment(q)) {
>  			unaligned = 1;
>  			break;

I think the correct fix is just to remove the 'break'.

Ben.

>  		}
> -		if (!iov[i].iov_len)
> -			return -EINVAL;
>  	}
>  
>  	if (unaligned || (q->dma_pad_mask & len) || map_data)
> 

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Sturgeon's Law: Ninety percent of everything is crap.

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