Re: [PATCH 04/16] elfops: add strict bounds checking to get/load_section()

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On 5/18/09, Andreas Robinson <andr345@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> get_section() and load_section() now return NULL if a section header
> is corrupt and points to a block that lies partially or entirely
> outside the file data buffer.

If we want to completely replace segfaults with informative error
messages, I think there's a missing safety test

elfops_core.c-117-      /* Old-style. */
elfops_core.c:118:      ksyms = PERBIT(load_section)(module,
"__ksymtab", &size);
elfops_core.c-119-      for (i = 0; i < size / sizeof(struct
PERBIT(kernel_symbol)); i++)
elfops_core.c-120-              symtbl =
NOFAIL(strtbl_add(ksyms[i].name, symtbl));
elfops_core.c:121:      ksyms = PERBIT(load_section)(module,
"__gpl_ksymtab", &size);
elfops_core.c-122-      for (i = 0; i < size / sizeof(struct
PERBIT(kernel_symbol)); i++)
elfops_core.c-123-              symtbl =
NOFAIL(strtbl_add(ksyms[i].name, symtbl));

load_section() can return early, leaving the value "size" undefined.
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