linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] proc: Avoid mixing integer types in mem

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Date:   Wed, 12 May 2021 10:40:35 -0300
From:   Marcelo Henrique Cerri <marcelo.cerri@...onical.com>
To:     Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
Cc:     linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, David Disseldorp <ddiss@...e.de>,
        Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@...onical.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@...ntu.com>,
        Michel Lespinasse <walken@...gle.com>,
        Helge Deller <deller@....de>, Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
        Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@...il.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] proc: Avoid mixing integer types in mem_rw()

On Wed, May 12, 2021 at 04:19:26PM +0300, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> On Wed, May 12, 2021 at 09:52:12AM -0300, Marcelo Henrique Cerri wrote:
> > Use size_t when capping the count argument received by mem_rw(). Since
> > count is size_t, using min_t(int, ...) can lead to a negative value
> > that will later be passed to access_remote_vm(), which can cause
> > unexpected behavior.
> > 
> > Since we are capping the value to at maximum PAGE_SIZE, the conversion
> > from size_t to int when passing it to access_remote_vm() as "len"
> > shouldn't be a problem.
> 
> > --- a/fs/proc/base.c
> > +++ b/fs/proc/base.c
> > @@ -854,7 +854,7 @@ static ssize_t mem_rw(struct file *file, char __user *buf,
> >  	flags = FOLL_FORCE | (write ? FOLL_WRITE : 0);
> >  
> >  	while (count > 0) {
> > -		int this_len = min_t(int, count, PAGE_SIZE);
> > +		size_t this_len = min_t(size_t, count, PAGE_SIZE);
> 
> As much as I don't like signed integers, VFS caps read/write lengths
> at INT_MAX & PAGE_MASK, so casting doesn't change values.

Although that should always be true we had a recent example of a
caller that wasn't properly capping it and since count is unsigned
anyway it makes sense to keep this value positive which might mitigate
similar issues in the future.

-- 
Regards,
Marcelo


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