From: Randy Dunlap Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2020 21:10:58 -0700 Subject: mm: mempolicy: require at least one nodeid for MPOL_PREFERRED Origin: https://git.kernel.org/linus/aa9f7d5172fac9bf1f09e678c35e287a40a7b7dd Bug-Debian-Security: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-11565 Using an empty (malformed) nodelist that is not caught during mount option parsing leads to a stack-out-of-bounds access. The option string that was used was: "mpol=prefer:,". However, MPOL_PREFERRED requires a single node number, which is not being provided here. Add a check that 'nodes' is not empty after parsing for MPOL_PREFERRED's nodeid. Fixes: 095f1fc4ebf3 ("mempolicy: rework shmem mpol parsing and display") Reported-by: Entropy Moe <3ntr0py1337@gmail.com> Reported-by: syzbot+b055b1a6b2b958707a21@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Tested-by: syzbot+b055b1a6b2b958707a21@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Cc: Lee Schermerhorn Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/89526377-7eb6-b662-e1d8-4430928abde9@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- mm/mempolicy.c | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/mm/mempolicy.c b/mm/mempolicy.c index 460683bbe58c..5fb427aed612 100644 --- a/mm/mempolicy.c +++ b/mm/mempolicy.c @@ -2898,7 +2898,9 @@ int mpol_parse_str(char *str, struct mempolicy **mpol) switch (mode) { case MPOL_PREFERRED: /* - * Insist on a nodelist of one node only + * Insist on a nodelist of one node only, although later + * we use first_node(nodes) to grab a single node, so here + * nodelist (or nodes) cannot be empty. */ if (nodelist) { char *rest = nodelist; @@ -2906,6 +2908,8 @@ int mpol_parse_str(char *str, struct mempolicy **mpol) rest++; if (*rest) goto out; + if (nodes_empty(nodes)) + goto out; } break; case MPOL_INTERLEAVE: -- 2.26.2