The patch titled
Subject: mm/mempolicy.c: fix out of bounds write in mpol_parse_str()
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
mm-mempolicyc-fix-out-of-bounds-write-in-mpol_parse_str.patch
This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree
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From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: mm/mempolicy.c: fix out of bounds write in mpol_parse_str()
What we are trying to do is change the '=' character to a NUL terminator
and then at the end of the function we restore it back to an '='. The
problem is there are two error paths where we jump to the end of the
function before we have replaced the '=' with NUL. We end up putting the
'=' in the wrong place (possibly one element before the start of the
buffer).
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200115055426.vdjwvry44nfug7yy@kili.mountain
Reported-by: syzbot+e64a13c5369a194d67df@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Fixes: 095f1fc4ebf3 ("mempolicy: rework shmem mpol parsing and display")
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx>
Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@xxxxxx>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/mempolicy.c | 6 +++---
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
--- a/mm/mempolicy.c~mm-mempolicyc-fix-out-of-bounds-write-in-mpol_parse_str
+++ a/mm/mempolicy.c
@@ -2821,6 +2821,9 @@ int mpol_parse_str(char *str, struct mem
char *flags = strchr(str, '=');
int err = 1, mode;
+ if (flags)
+ *flags++ = '\0'; /* terminate mode string */
+
if (nodelist) {
/* NUL-terminate mode or flags string */
*nodelist++ = '\0';
@@ -2831,9 +2834,6 @@ int mpol_parse_str(char *str, struct mem
} else
nodes_clear(nodes);
- if (flags)
- *flags++ = '\0'; /* terminate mode string */
-
mode = match_string(policy_modes, MPOL_MAX, str);
if (mode < 0)
goto out;
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx are
