netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] crypto: Fix af_alg_sendmsg(MSG_SPLICE

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Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2023 18:27:59 +0800
From: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To: David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	syzbot+6efc50cc1f8d718d6cb7@...kaller.appspotmail.com,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
	Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>, Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
	linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] crypto: Fix af_alg_sendmsg(MSG_SPLICE_PAGES)
 sglist limit

On Thu, Jun 15, 2023 at 10:08:54PM +0100, David Howells wrote:
> When af_alg_sendmsg() calls extract_iter_to_sg(), it passes MAX_SGL_ENTS as
> the maximum number of elements that may be written to, but some of the
> elements may already have been used (as recorded in sgl->cur), so
> extract_iter_to_sg() may end up overrunning the scatterlist.
> 
> Fix this to limit the number of elements to "MAX_SGL_ENTS - sgl->cur".
> 
> Note: It probably makes sense in future to alter the behaviour of
> extract_iter_to_sg() to stop if "sgtable->nents >= sg_max" instead, but
> this is a smaller fix for now.
> 
> The bug causes errors looking something like:
> 
> BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in sg_assign_page include/linux/scatterlist.h:109 [inline]
> BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in sg_set_page include/linux/scatterlist.h:139 [inline]
> BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in extract_bvec_to_sg lib/scatterlist.c:1183 [inline]
> BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in extract_iter_to_sg lib/scatterlist.c:1352 [inline]
> BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in extract_iter_to_sg+0x17a6/0x1960 lib/scatterlist.c:1339
> 
> Fixes: bf63e250c4b1 ("crypto: af_alg: Support MSG_SPLICE_PAGES")
> Reported-by: syzbot+6efc50cc1f8d718d6cb7@...kaller.appspotmail.com
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/000000000000b2585a05fdeb8379@google.com/
> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
> Tested-by: syzbot+6efc50cc1f8d718d6cb7@...kaller.appspotmail.com
> cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
> cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
> cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
> cc: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
> cc: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
> cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
> cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
> cc: linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org
> cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org
> ---
>  crypto/af_alg.c |    2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Acked-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>

Thanks,
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