This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
modpost: fix off by one in is_executable_section()
to the 5.4-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
modpost-fix-off-by-one-in-is_executable_section.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit b87d4d45db6fc1d96fd0ef1971e19eeee6f18792
Author: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu Jun 8 11:23:40 2023 +0300
modpost: fix off by one in is_executable_section()
[ Upstream commit 3a3f1e573a105328a2cca45a7cfbebabbf5e3192 ]
The > comparison should be >= to prevent an out of bounds array
access.
Fixes: 52dc0595d540 ("modpost: handle relocations mismatch in __ex_table.")
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/scripts/mod/modpost.c b/scripts/mod/modpost.c
index 75d76b8f50302..53e276bb24acd 100644
--- a/scripts/mod/modpost.c
+++ b/scripts/mod/modpost.c
@@ -1633,7 +1633,7 @@ static void default_mismatch_handler(const char *modname, struct elf_info *elf,
static int is_executable_section(struct elf_info* elf, unsigned int section_index)
{
- if (section_index > elf->num_sections)
+ if (section_index >= elf->num_sections)
fatal("section_index is outside elf->num_sections!\n");
return ((elf->sechdrs[section_index].sh_flags & SHF_EXECINSTR) == SHF_EXECINSTR);
