Re: [Xen-devel] [patch 1/3] xen/privcmd: check for integer overflow in ioctl

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On 08/09/12 10:52, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> If m.num is too large then the "m.num * sizeof(*m.arr)" multiplication
> could overflow and the access_ok() check wouldn't test the right size.

m.num is range checked later on so it doesn't matter that the
access_ok() checks might be wrong.  A bit subtle, perhaps.

David

> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Only needed in linux-next.
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/xen/privcmd.c b/drivers/xen/privcmd.c
> index 215a3c0..fdff8f9 100644
> --- a/drivers/xen/privcmd.c
> +++ b/drivers/xen/privcmd.c
> @@ -325,6 +325,8 @@ static long privcmd_ioctl_mmap_batch(void __user *udata, int version)
>  			return -EFAULT;
>  		/* Returns per-frame error in m.arr. */
>  		m.err = NULL;
> +		if (m.num > SIZE_MAX / sizeof(*m.arr))
> +			return -EINVAL;
>  		if (!access_ok(VERIFY_WRITE, m.arr, m.num * sizeof(*m.arr)))
>  			return -EFAULT;
>  		break;
> @@ -332,6 +334,8 @@ static long privcmd_ioctl_mmap_batch(void __user *udata, int version)
>  		if (copy_from_user(&m, udata, sizeof(struct privcmd_mmapbatch_v2)))
>  			return -EFAULT;
>  		/* Returns per-frame error code in m.err. */
> +		if (m.num > SIZE_MAX / sizeof(*m.err))
> +			return -EINVAL;
>  		if (!access_ok(VERIFY_WRITE, m.err, m.num * (sizeof(*m.err))))
>  			return -EFAULT;
>  		break;
> 
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