This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
selftests/resctrl: Fix memory overflow due to unhandled wraparound
to the 6.11-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:
selftests-resctrl-fix-memory-overflow-due-to-unhandl.patch
and it can be found in the queue-6.11 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit dd45649867467a8386bf3eb5e68c06d87aaa5469
Author: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu Oct 24 14:18:40 2024 -0700
selftests/resctrl: Fix memory overflow due to unhandled wraparound
[ Upstream commit caf02626b2bf164a02c808240f19dbf97aced664 ]
alloc_buffer() allocates and initializes (with random data) a
buffer of requested size. The initialization starts from the beginning
of the allocated buffer and incrementally assigns sizeof(uint64_t) random
data to each cache line. The initialization uses the size of the
buffer to control the initialization flow, decrementing the amount of
buffer needing to be initialized after each iteration.
The size of the buffer is stored in an unsigned (size_t) variable s64
and the test "s64 > 0" is used to decide if initialization is complete.
The problem is that decrementing the buffer size may wrap around
if the buffer size is not divisible by "CL_SIZE / sizeof(uint64_t)"
resulting in the "s64 > 0" test being true and memory beyond the buffer
"initialized".
Use a signed value for the buffer size to support all buffer sizes.
Fixes: a2561b12fe39 ("selftests/resctrl: Add built in benchmark")
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@xxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan <skhan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/fill_buf.c b/tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/fill_buf.c
index ae120f1735c0b..34e5df721430e 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/fill_buf.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/fill_buf.c
@@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ unsigned char *alloc_buffer(size_t buf_size, int memflush)
{
void *buf = NULL;
uint64_t *p64;
- size_t s64;
+ ssize_t s64;
int ret;
ret = posix_memalign(&buf, PAGE_SIZE, buf_size);
