linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] pstore/zone: avoid dereferencing zero sized ptr after init zones

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Message-ID: <202501090947.3619CFD5E9@keescook>
Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2025 09:48:27 -0800
From: Kees Cook <kees@...nel.org>
To: Eugen Hristev <eugen.hristev@...aro.org>
Cc: liaoweixiong@...winnertech.com, linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, gpiccoli@...lia.com,
	tony.luck@...el.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] pstore/zone: avoid dereferencing zero sized ptr after
 init zones

On Fri, Dec 27, 2024 at 07:04:59PM +0200, Eugen Hristev wrote:
> In psz_init_zones, if the requested area has a total_size less than
> record_size, kcalloc will be called with c == 0 and will return
> ZERO_SIZE_PTR.
> Further, this will lead to an oops.
> 
> With this patch, in this scenario, it will look like this :
> [    6.865545] pstore_zone:     total size : 28672 Bytes
> [    6.865547] pstore_zone:     kmsg size : 65536 Bytes
> [    6.865549] pstore_zone:     pmsg size : 0 Bytes
> [    6.865551] pstore_zone:     console size : 0 Bytes
> [    6.865553] pstore_zone:     ftrace size : 0 Bytes
> [    6.872095] pstore_zone: zone dmesg total_size too small
> [    6.878234] pstore_zone: alloc zones failed
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eugen Hristev <eugen.hristev@...aro.org>
> ---
>  fs/pstore/zone.c | 4 ++++
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/pstore/zone.c b/fs/pstore/zone.c
> index 694db616663f..50a765999b54 100644
> --- a/fs/pstore/zone.c
> +++ b/fs/pstore/zone.c
> @@ -1217,6 +1217,10 @@ static struct pstore_zone **psz_init_zones(enum pstore_type_id type,
>  		pr_err("allocate for zones %s failed\n", name);
>  		return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
>  	}
> +	if (unlikely(zones == ZERO_SIZE_PTR)) {
> +		pr_err("zone %s total_size too small\n", name);
> +		return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
> +	}

I'd rather catch this after the calculation of "c" rather than after a
zero-sized allocation. Can you rework the patch to test it then?

-Kees

>  
>  	for (i = 0; i < c; i++) {
>  		zone = psz_init_zone(type, off, record_size);
> -- 
> 2.43.0
> 

-- 
Kees Cook