This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled RDS: Heap OOB write in rds_message_alloc_sgs() to the 4.4-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-heap-oob-write-in-rds_message_alloc_sgs.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From foo@baz Sat Jan 13 14:28:20 CET 2018 From: Mohamed Ghannam <simo.ghannam@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2018 19:44:34 +0000 Subject: RDS: Heap OOB write in rds_message_alloc_sgs() From: Mohamed Ghannam <simo.ghannam@xxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit c095508770aebf1b9218e77026e48345d719b17c ] When args->nr_local is 0, nr_pages gets also 0 due some size calculation via rds_rm_size(), which is later used to allocate pages for DMA, this bug produces a heap Out-Of-Bound write access to a specific memory region. Signed-off-by: Mohamed Ghannam <simo.ghannam@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/rds/rdma.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) --- a/net/rds/rdma.c +++ b/net/rds/rdma.c @@ -517,6 +517,9 @@ int rds_rdma_extra_size(struct rds_rdma_ local_vec = (struct rds_iovec __user *)(unsigned long) args->local_vec_addr; + if (args->nr_local == 0) + return -EINVAL; + /* figure out the number of pages in the vector */ for (i = 0; i < args->nr_local; i++) { if (copy_from_user(&vec, &local_vec[i], Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from simo.ghannam@xxxxxxxxx are queue-4.4/rds-null-pointer-dereference-in-rds_atomic_free_op.patch queue-4.4/rds-heap-oob-write-in-rds_message_alloc_sgs.patch