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authorEric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>2021-07-13 17:49:23 +0200
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2021-07-20 16:22:44 +0200
commit3533e50cbee8ff086bfa04176ac42a01ee3db37d (patch)
tree60089ef2b5327ce776936c21630de6f9926c0891 /fs
parentc41c926d9dfb3c81da370faf678eb06f7f48ba77 (diff)
seq_file: disallow extremely large seq buffer allocations
commit 8cae8cd89f05f6de223d63e6d15e31c8ba9cf53b upstream. There is no reasonable need for a buffer larger than this, and it avoids int overflow pitfalls. Fixes: 058504edd026 ("fs/seq_file: fallback to vmalloc allocation") Suggested-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Reported-by: Qualys Security Advisory <qsa@qualys.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs')
-rw-r--r--fs/seq_file.c4
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/seq_file.c b/fs/seq_file.c
index 6dc4296eed62..95e730506ad2 100644
--- a/fs/seq_file.c
+++ b/fs/seq_file.c
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
#include <linux/mm.h>
#include <linux/printk.h>
#include <linux/string_helpers.h>
+#include <linux/pagemap.h>
#include <asm/uaccess.h>
#include <asm/page.h>
@@ -28,6 +29,9 @@ static void *seq_buf_alloc(unsigned long size)
void *buf;
gfp_t gfp = GFP_KERNEL;
+ if (unlikely(size > MAX_RW_COUNT))
+ return NULL;
+
/*
* For high order allocations, use __GFP_NORETRY to avoid oom-killing -
* it's better to fall back to vmalloc() than to kill things. For small