On Tue, Dec 20, 2022 at 11:36:50AM +0100, Roberto Sassu wrote:
> On 12/20/2022 8:24 AM, Herbert Xu wrote:
> > On Mon, Dec 19, 2022 at 09:49:29AM +0100, Roberto Sassu wrote:
> > >
> > > do you have any news on this bug?
> >
> > Thanks for the reminder. Could you please try this patch?
>
> Tried, could not boot the UML kernel.
>
> After looking, it seems we have to call sg_miter_stop(). Or alternatively,
> we could let sg_miter_next() be called but not writing anything inside the
> loop.
>
> With either of those fixes, the tests pass (using one scatterlist).
>
> Roberto
>
> > ---8<---
> > The helper mpi_read_raw_from_sgl ignores the second parameter
> > nbytes when reading the SG list and may overrun its own buffer
> > because it only allocates enough memory according to nbytes.
> >
> > Fixes: 2d4d1eea540b ("lib/mpi: Add mpi sgl helpers")
> > Reported-by: Roberto Sassu <roberto.sassu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > diff --git a/lib/mpi/mpicoder.c b/lib/mpi/mpicoder.c
> > index 39c4c6731094..6bffc68c1a5a 100644
> > --- a/lib/mpi/mpicoder.c
> > +++ b/lib/mpi/mpicoder.c
> > @@ -494,17 +494,15 @@ MPI mpi_read_raw_from_sgl(struct scatterlist *sgl, unsigned int nbytes)
> > val->sign = 0;
> > val->nlimbs = nlimbs;
> > - if (nbytes == 0)
> > - return val;
> > -
> > j = nlimbs - 1;
> > a = 0;
> > z = BYTES_PER_MPI_LIMB - nbytes % BYTES_PER_MPI_LIMB;
> > z %= BYTES_PER_MPI_LIMB;
> > - while (sg_miter_next(&miter)) {
> > + while (nbytes && sg_miter_next(&miter)) {
> > buff = miter.addr;
> > - len = miter.length;
> > + len = min_t(unsigned, miter.length, nbytes);
> > + nbytes -= len;
> > for (x = 0; x < len; x++) {
> > a <<= 8;
I think it should look like:
while (nbytes) {
sg_miter_next(&miter);
...
}
sg_miter_stop(&miter);
- Eric
