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    kernel/sysctl.c: fix out-of-bounds access when setting file-max · e6ca59da
    Will Deacon authored
    commit 9002b21465fa4d829edfc94a5a441005cffaa972 upstream.
    
    Commit 32a5ad9c2285 ("sysctl: handle overflow for file-max") hooked up
    min/max values for the file-max sysctl parameter via the .extra1 and
    .extra2 fields in the corresponding struct ctl_table entry.
    
    Unfortunately, the minimum value points at the global 'zero' variable,
    which is an int.  This results in a KASAN splat when accessed as a long
    by proc_doulongvec_minmax on 64-bit architectures:
    
      | BUG: KASAN: global-out-of-bounds in __do_proc_doulongvec_minmax+0x5d8/0x6a0
      | Read of size 8 at addr ffff2000133d1c20 by task systemd/1
      |
      | CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: systemd Not tainted 5.1.0-rc3-00012-g40b114779944 #2
      | Hardware name: linux,dummy-virt (DT)
      | Call trace:
      |  dump_backtrace+0x0/0x228
      |  show_stack+0x14/0x20
      |  dump_stack+0xe8/0x124
      |  print_address_description+0x60/0x258
      |  kasan_report+0x140/0x1a0
      |  __asan_report_load8_noabort+0x18/0x20
      |  __do_proc_doulongvec_minmax+0x5d8/0x6a0
      |  proc_doulongvec_minmax+0x4c/0x78
      |  proc_sys_call_handler.isra.19+0x144/0x1d8
      |  proc_sys_write+0x34/0x58
      |  __vfs_write+0x54/0xe8
      |  vfs_write+0x124/0x3c0
      |  ksys_write+0xbc/0x168
      |  __arm64_sys_write+0x68/0x98
      |  el0_svc_common+0x100/0x258
      |  el0_svc_handler+0x48/0xc0
      |  el0_svc+0x8/0xc
      |
      | The buggy address belongs to the variable:
      |  zero+0x0/0x40
      |
      | Memory state around the buggy address:
      |  ffff2000133d1b00: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 fa fa fa fa 04 fa fa fa
      |  ffff2000133d1b80: fa fa fa fa 04 fa fa fa fa fa fa fa 04 fa fa fa
      | >ffff2000133d1c00: fa fa fa fa 04 fa fa fa fa fa fa fa 00 00 00 00
      |                                ^
      |  ffff2000133d1c80: fa fa fa fa 00 fa fa fa fa fa fa fa 00 00 00 00
      |  ffff2000133d1d00: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
    
    Fix the splat by introducing a unsigned long 'zero_ul' and using that
    instead.
    
    Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190403153409.17307-1-will.deacon@arm.com
    
    
    Fixes: 32a5ad9c2285 ("sysctl: handle overflow for file-max")
    Signed-off-by: default avatarWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarChristian Brauner <christian@brauner.io>
    Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
    Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
    Cc: Matteo Croce <mcroce@redhat.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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