In Linus's tree, the iovec code has been reworked massively, but in
older kernels the AIO layer should be checking this before passing the
request on to other layers.
Many thanks to Ben Hawkes of Google Project Zero for pointing out the
issue.
Reported-by: Ben Hawkes <hawkes@google.com>
Acked-by: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
Tested-by: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
unsigned long *nr_segs,
struct iovec *iovec)
{
- if (unlikely(!access_ok(!rw, buf, kiocb->ki_nbytes)))
+ size_t len = kiocb->ki_nbytes;
+
+ if (len > MAX_RW_COUNT)
+ len = MAX_RW_COUNT;
+
+ if (unlikely(!access_ok(!rw, buf, len)))
return -EFAULT;
iovec->iov_base = buf;
- iovec->iov_len = kiocb->ki_nbytes;
+ iovec->iov_len = len;
*nr_segs = 1;
return 0;
}