This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled smackfs: Prevent underflow in smk_set_cipso() to the 6.1-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: smackfs-prevent-underflow-in-smk_set_cipso.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.1 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit b604bfab7e785d89598d3ef89728115405624307 Author: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu Jul 6 08:52:39 2023 +0300 smackfs: Prevent underflow in smk_set_cipso() [ Upstream commit 3ad49d37cf5759c3b8b68d02e3563f633d9c1aee ] There is a upper bound to "catlen" but no lower bound to prevent negatives. I don't see that this necessarily causes a problem but we may as well be safe. Fixes: e114e473771c ("Smack: Simplified Mandatory Access Control Kernel") Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Casey Schaufler <casey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/security/smack/smackfs.c b/security/smack/smackfs.c index 4b58526450d49..da7db9e22ce7c 100644 --- a/security/smack/smackfs.c +++ b/security/smack/smackfs.c @@ -896,7 +896,7 @@ static ssize_t smk_set_cipso(struct file *file, const char __user *buf, } ret = sscanf(rule, "%d", &catlen); - if (ret != 1 || catlen > SMACK_CIPSO_MAXCATNUM) + if (ret != 1 || catlen < 0 || catlen > SMACK_CIPSO_MAXCATNUM) goto out; if (format == SMK_FIXED24_FMT &&