This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled sg_start_req(): make sure that there's not too many elements in iovec to the 3.10-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: sg_start_req-make-sure-that-there-s-not-too-many-elements-in-iovec.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.10 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 451a2886b6bf90e2fb378f7c46c655450fb96e81 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2015 20:08:18 -0400 Subject: sg_start_req(): make sure that there's not too many elements in iovec From: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit 451a2886b6bf90e2fb378f7c46c655450fb96e81 upstream. unfortunately, allowing an arbitrary 16bit value means a possibility of overflow in the calculation of total number of pages in bio_map_user_iov() - we rely on there being no more than PAGE_SIZE members of sum in the first loop there. If that sum wraps around, we end up allocating too small array of pointers to pages and it's easy to overflow it in the second loop. X-Coverup: TINC (and there's no lumber cartel either) Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [bwh: s/MAX_UIOVEC/UIO_MAXIOV/. This was fixed upstream by commit fdc81f45e9f5 ("sg_start_req(): use import_iovec()"), but we don't have that function.] Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/scsi/sg.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) --- a/drivers/scsi/sg.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/sg.c @@ -1694,6 +1694,9 @@ static int sg_start_req(Sg_request *srp, md->from_user = 0; } + if (unlikely(iov_count > UIO_MAXIOV)) + return -EINVAL; + if (iov_count) { int len, size = sizeof(struct sg_iovec) * iov_count; struct iovec *iov; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.10/ipc-modify-message-queue-accounting-to-not-take-kernel-data-structures-into-account.patch queue-3.10/sg_start_req-make-sure-that-there-s-not-too-many-elements-in-iovec.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