3.18-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Mohamed Ghannam simo.ghannam@gmail.com
[ 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@gmail.com Signed-off-by: David S. Miller davem@davemloft.net Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- net/rds/rdma.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
--- a/net/rds/rdma.c +++ b/net/rds/rdma.c @@ -516,6 +516,9 @@ 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],