2.6.35-longterm review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Timo Warns <wa...@pre-sense.de>
commit 1eafbfeb7bdf59cfe173304c76188f3fd5f1fd05 upstream.
The kernel automatically evaluates partition tables of storage devices.
The code for evaluating OSF partitions contains a bug that leaks data
from kernel heap memory to userspace for certain corrupted OSF
partitions.
In more detail:
for (i = 0 ; i < le16_to_cpu(label->d_npartitions); i++, partition++) {
iterates from 0 to d_npartitions - 1, where d_npartitions is read from
the partition table without validation and partition is a pointer to an
array of at most 8 d_partitions.
Add the proper and obvious validation.
Signed-off-by: Timo Warns <wa...@pre-sense.de>
Cc: sta...@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <a...@linux.intel.com>
[ Changed the patch trivially to not repeat the whole le16_to_cpu()
thing, and to use an explicit constant for the magic value '8' ]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torva...@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@suse.de>
---
fs/partitions/osf.c | 12 ++++++++++--
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
Index: linux-2.6.35.y/fs/partitions/osf.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.35.y.orig/fs/partitions/osf.c
+++ linux-2.6.35.y/fs/partitions/osf.c
@@ -10,10 +10,13 @@
#include "check.h"
#include "osf.h"
+#define MAX_OSF_PARTITIONS 8
+
int osf_partition(struct parsed_partitions *state)
{
int i;
int slot = 1;
+ unsigned int npartitions;
Sector sect;
unsigned char *data;
struct disklabel {
@@ -45,7 +48,7 @@ int osf_partition(struct parsed_partitio
u8 p_fstype;
u8 p_frag;
__le16 p_cpg;
- } d_partitions[8];
+ } d_partitions[MAX_OSF_PARTITIONS];
} * label;
struct d_partition * partition;
@@ -63,7 +66,12 @@ int osf_partition(struct parsed_partitio
put_dev_sector(sect);
return 0;
}
- for (i = 0 ; i < le16_to_cpu(label->d_npartitions); i++, partition++) {
+ npartitions = le16_to_cpu(label->d_npartitions);
+ if (npartitions > MAX_OSF_PARTITIONS) {
+ put_dev_sector(sect);
+ return 0;
+ }
+ for (i = 0 ; i < npartitions; i++, partition++) {
if (slot == state->limit)
break;
if (le32_to_cpu(partition->p_size))
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