4.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Mohamed Ghannam <simo.ghan...@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.ghan...@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <da...@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org>
---
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],
