On 5 February 2016 at 04:31, Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 5:59 PM, Ville Syrjälä > <ville.syrjala@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Thu, Feb 04, 2016 at 05:37:49PM +0100, Dmitry Vyukov wrote: >>> On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 5:32 PM, Ville Syrjälä >>> <ville.syrjala@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> > On Thu, Feb 04, 2016 at 04:49:49PM +0100, Dmitry Vyukov wrote: >>> >> Size of kmalloc() in vga_arb_write() is controlled by user. >>> >> Too large kmalloc() size triggers WARNING message on console. >>> >> >>> >> Use GFP_USER | __GFP_NOWARN for this kmalloc() to not scare admins. >>> >> >>> >> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@xxxxxxxxxx> >>> >> --- >>> >> Example WARNING: >>> >> >>> >> WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 29322 at mm/page_alloc.c:2999 >>> >> __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x7d2/0x1760() >>> >> Modules linked in: >>> >> CPU: 2 PID: 29322 Comm: syz-executor Tainted: G B 4.5.0-rc1+ #283 >>> >> Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS Bochs 01/01/2011 >>> >> 00000000ffffffff ffff880069eff670 ffffffff8299a06d 0000000000000000 >>> >> ffff8800658a4740 ffffffff864985a0 ffff880069eff6b0 ffffffff8134fcf9 >>> >> ffffffff8166de32 ffffffff864985a0 0000000000000bb7 00000000024040c0 >>> >> Call Trace: >>> >> [< inline >] __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:15 >>> >> [<ffffffff8299a06d>] dump_stack+0x6f/0xa2 lib/dump_stack.c:50 >>> >> [<ffffffff8134fcf9>] warn_slowpath_common+0xd9/0x140 kernel/panic.c:482 >>> >> [<ffffffff8134ff29>] warn_slowpath_null+0x29/0x30 kernel/panic.c:515 >>> >> [< inline >] __alloc_pages_slowpath mm/page_alloc.c:2999 >>> >> [<ffffffff8166de32>] __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x7d2/0x1760 mm/page_alloc.c:3253 >>> >> [<ffffffff81745c99>] alloc_pages_current+0xe9/0x450 mm/mempolicy.c:2090 >>> >> [< inline >] alloc_pages include/linux/gfp.h:459 >>> >> [<ffffffff81669bb6>] alloc_kmem_pages+0x16/0x100 mm/page_alloc.c:3433 >>> >> [<ffffffff816c20af>] kmalloc_order+0x1f/0x80 mm/slab_common.c:1008 >>> >> [<ffffffff816c212f>] kmalloc_order_trace+0x1f/0x140 mm/slab_common.c:1019 >>> >> [< inline >] kmalloc_large include/linux/slab.h:395 >>> >> [<ffffffff81756b24>] __kmalloc+0x2f4/0x340 mm/slub.c:3557 >>> >> [< inline >] kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:468 >>> >> [<ffffffff832c65a4>] vga_arb_write+0xd4/0xe40 drivers/gpu/vga/vgaarb.c:926 >>> >> [<ffffffff817a9831>] do_loop_readv_writev+0x141/0x1e0 fs/read_write.c:719 >>> >> [<ffffffff817ad698>] do_readv_writev+0x5f8/0x6e0 fs/read_write.c:849 >>> >> [<ffffffff817ad8b6>] vfs_writev+0x86/0xc0 fs/read_write.c:886 >>> >> [< inline >] SYSC_writev fs/read_write.c:919 >>> >> [<ffffffff817b0a21>] SyS_writev+0x111/0x2b0 fs/read_write.c:911 >>> >> [<ffffffff86359636>] entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x16/0x7a >>> >> arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:185 >>> >> --- >>> >> drivers/gpu/vga/vgaarb.c | 2 +- >>> >> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) >>> >> >>> >> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/vga/vgaarb.c b/drivers/gpu/vga/vgaarb.c >>> >> index f17cb04..d73b85b 100644 >>> >> --- a/drivers/gpu/vga/vgaarb.c >>> >> +++ b/drivers/gpu/vga/vgaarb.c >>> >> @@ -923,7 +923,7 @@ static ssize_t vga_arb_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buf, >>> >> int i; >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> - kbuf = kmalloc(count + 1, GFP_KERNEL); >>> >> + kbuf = kmalloc(count + 1, GFP_USER | __GFP_NOWARN); >>> > >>> > I don't really see why it does this user controlled malloc in the >>> > first place. The max legth of the string it will actually handle looks >>> > well bounded, so it could just use some fixed length buffer (on stack >>> > even). >>> >>> >>> What would be the right limit on data len? >> >> From the looks of things the longest command could be the >> "target PCI:domain:bus:dev.fn" thing. Even assuming something silly like >> having 10 characters for each domain,bus,dev,fn that would still be only >> 55 bytes. So based on that even something like 64 bytes should be more >> than enough AFAICS. > > David, what do you think? I can allocate char kbuf[64] on stack. > > >> The other thing that strikes me as bit odd in this code is that it >> just ignores whatever data is left over after it's done parsing the >> string. But it returns the full count to userspace, indicating it >> ate all of it. I guess that's fairly sane when userspace just uses a >> fixed size buffer and checks that the kernel consumed it all. But >> maybe there should be an actual check to see that there's a '\0' >> or maybe <any amount of whitespace>+'\0' after the parsed string. Yeah Ville is probably right, we could just allocate 64 bytes and dump anything greater than that, and stuck \0 on the end. Dave. _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel