On Thu, Apr 04, 2019 at 01:02:19PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote: > There have been two cases recently where we pass user a controlled "cpu" > to possible_cpus(). That's not allowed. If it's invalid, it will > trigger a WARN_ONCE() and an out of bounds read which could result in an > Oops. > +/** > + * cpumask_test_cpu_safe - test for a cpu in a cpumask > + * @cpu: cpu number > + * @cpumask: the cpumask pointer > + * > + * Returns 1 if @cpu is valid and set in @cpumask, else returns 0 > + */ > +static inline int cpumask_test_cpu_safe(int cpu, const struct cpumask *cpumask) > +{ > + if ((unsigned int)cpu >= nr_cpu_ids) > + return 0; > + cpu = array_index_nospec(cpu, NR_CPUS); That should be: cpu = array_index_nospec(cpu, nr_cpu_ids); NR_CPUS might still be out-of-bounds for dynamically allocated cpumasks. > + return test_bit(cpu, cpumask_bits(cpumask)); > +} That said; I don't particularly like this interface not its naming, how about something like: static inline unsigned int cpumask_validate_cpu(unsigned int cpu) { if (cpu >= nr_cpumask_bits) return nr_cpumask_bits; return array_index_nospec(cpu, nr_cpumask_bits); } Which you can then use like: cpu = cpumask_validate_cpu(user_cpu); if (cpu >= nr_cpu_ids) return -ENORANGE; /* @cpu is valid, do what needs doing */