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authorAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2016-12-16 13:42:06 -0500
committerMister Oyster <oysterized@gmail.com>2017-04-13 12:34:37 +0200
commit8beb20c102f60ae941f4c0644e5100465bf09c9d (patch)
tree5d4246dfb8a711a0a9e341272feb733b6dd86b1b /block
parentd01d5036e5f84f36c83054ec6a8195f6bc2d1991 (diff)
sg_write()/bsg_write() is not fit to be called under KERNEL_DS
Both damn things interpret userland pointers embedded into the payload; worse, they are actually traversing those. Leaving aside the bad API design, this is very much _not_ safe to call with KERNEL_DS. Bail out early if that happens. Change-Id: I383485b4d44970eb61b7178c0b9a4376abfe8cd1 Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Corinna Vinschen <xda@vinschen.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'block')
-rw-r--r--block/bsg.c3
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/block/bsg.c b/block/bsg.c
index 420a5a9f1..76801e57f 100644
--- a/block/bsg.c
+++ b/block/bsg.c
@@ -675,6 +675,9 @@ bsg_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buf, size_t count, loff_t *ppos)
dprintk("%s: write %Zd bytes\n", bd->name, count);
+ if (unlikely(segment_eq(get_fs(), KERNEL_DS)))
+ return -EINVAL;
+
bsg_set_block(bd, file);
bytes_written = 0;