This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled safesetid: check size of policy writes 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: safesetid-check-size-of-policy-writes.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 4fdd1064916ba2783f4f06b6aaeecffddeaea6d0 Author: Leo Stone <leocstone@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue Dec 17 10:26:57 2024 -0800 safesetid: check size of policy writes [ Upstream commit f09ff307c7299392f1c88f763299e24bc99811c7 ] syzbot attempts to write a buffer with a large size to a sysfs entry with writes handled by handle_policy_update(), triggering a warning in kmalloc. Check the size specified for write buffers before allocating. Reported-by: syzbot+4eb7a741b3216020043a@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=4eb7a741b3216020043a Signed-off-by: Leo Stone <leocstone@xxxxxxxxx> [PM: subject tweak] Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/security/safesetid/securityfs.c b/security/safesetid/securityfs.c index 25310468bcddf..8e1ffd70b18ab 100644 --- a/security/safesetid/securityfs.c +++ b/security/safesetid/securityfs.c @@ -143,6 +143,9 @@ static ssize_t handle_policy_update(struct file *file, char *buf, *p, *end; int err; + if (len >= KMALLOC_MAX_SIZE) + return -EINVAL; + pol = kmalloc(sizeof(struct setid_ruleset), GFP_KERNEL); if (!pol) return -ENOMEM;