On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 11:10:02AM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > Dan Carpenter <dan.carpen...@oracle.com> writes: > > > This is called from rsc_parse() with a use controlled value. Say for > > example that "gidsetsize" is negative, then we could end up allocating > > less than sizeof(struct group_info) leading to memory corruption. > > Right now it is the responsibility of the caller of groups_alloc to make > certain that gidsetsize is a valid value, and the callers of > groups_alloc who know what they are doing already validate this value. > > Either the pattern of caller validates the messages needs to continue, > or groups_alloc needs to be changed and all of the callers need to be > updated. > > Changing groups_alloc for one particular caller is just going to cause > maintenance problems. >
This only affects NFS so let's hear from them if this limit is correct and decide from there. regards, dan carpenter -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
