This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled rds: limit the size allocated by rds_message_alloc() to the 3.4-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: rds-limit-the-size-allocated-by-rds_message_alloc.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From d3a7ebf73779faa29a1a7d45266579f57dc011ab Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Cong Wang <amwang@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sun, 3 Mar 2013 16:18:11 +0000 Subject: rds: limit the size allocated by rds_message_alloc() From: Cong Wang <amwang@xxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit ece6b0a2b25652d684a7ced4ae680a863af041e0 ] Dave Jones reported the following bug: "When fed mangled socket data, rds will trust what userspace gives it, and tries to allocate enormous amounts of memory larger than what kmalloc can satisfy." WARNING: at mm/page_alloc.c:2393 __alloc_pages_nodemask+0xa0d/0xbe0() Hardware name: GA-MA78GM-S2H Modules linked in: vmw_vsock_vmci_transport vmw_vmci vsock fuse bnep dlci bridge 8021q garp stp mrp binfmt_misc l2tp_ppp l2tp_core rfcomm s Pid: 24652, comm: trinity-child2 Not tainted 3.8.0+ #65 Call Trace: [<ffffffff81044155>] warn_slowpath_common+0x75/0xa0 [<ffffffff8104419a>] warn_slowpath_null+0x1a/0x20 [<ffffffff811444ad>] __alloc_pages_nodemask+0xa0d/0xbe0 [<ffffffff8100a196>] ? native_sched_clock+0x26/0x90 [<ffffffff810b2128>] ? trace_hardirqs_off_caller+0x28/0xc0 [<ffffffff810b21cd>] ? trace_hardirqs_off+0xd/0x10 [<ffffffff811861f8>] alloc_pages_current+0xb8/0x180 [<ffffffff8113eaaa>] __get_free_pages+0x2a/0x80 [<ffffffff811934fe>] kmalloc_order_trace+0x3e/0x1a0 [<ffffffff81193955>] __kmalloc+0x2f5/0x3a0 [<ffffffff8104df0c>] ? local_bh_enable_ip+0x7c/0xf0 [<ffffffffa0401ab3>] rds_message_alloc+0x23/0xb0 [rds] [<ffffffffa04043a1>] rds_sendmsg+0x2b1/0x990 [rds] [<ffffffff810b21cd>] ? trace_hardirqs_off+0xd/0x10 [<ffffffff81564620>] sock_sendmsg+0xb0/0xe0 [<ffffffff810b2052>] ? get_lock_stats+0x22/0x70 [<ffffffff810b24be>] ? put_lock_stats.isra.23+0xe/0x40 [<ffffffff81567f30>] sys_sendto+0x130/0x180 [<ffffffff810b872d>] ? trace_hardirqs_on+0xd/0x10 [<ffffffff816c547b>] ? _raw_spin_unlock_irq+0x3b/0x60 [<ffffffff816cd767>] ? sysret_check+0x1b/0x56 [<ffffffff810b8695>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0x115/0x1a0 [<ffffffff81341d8e>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_thunk+0x3a/0x3f [<ffffffff816cd742>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b ---[ end trace eed6ae990d018c8b ]--- Reported-by: Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Venkat Venkatsubra <venkat.x.venkatsubra@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <amwang@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Venkat Venkatsubra <venkat.x.venkatsubra@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/rds/message.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) --- a/net/rds/message.c +++ b/net/rds/message.c @@ -197,6 +197,9 @@ struct rds_message *rds_message_alloc(un { struct rds_message *rm; + if (extra_len > KMALLOC_MAX_SIZE - sizeof(struct rds_message)) + return NULL; + rm = kzalloc(sizeof(struct rds_message) + extra_len, gfp); if (!rm) goto out; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from amwang@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.4/rds-limit-the-size-allocated-by-rds_message_alloc.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html