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| author | Harald Freudenberger <freude@linux.ibm.com> | 2021-04-20 08:23:12 +0200 |
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| committer | Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com> | 2021-04-21 12:32:12 +0200 |
| commit | 28096067686c5a5cbd4c35b079749bd805df5010 (patch) | |
| tree | 3ad7f13a743e387d6fa2162947a42bc01b484d8a /arch | |
| parent | 70fac8088cfad9f3b379c9082832b4d7532c16c2 (diff) | |
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s390/archrandom: add parameter check for s390_arch_random_generate
A review of the code showed, that this function which is exposed
within the whole kernel should do a parameter check for the
amount of bytes requested. If this requested bytes is too high
an unsigned int overflow could happen causing this function to
try to memcpy a really big memory chunk.
This is not a security issue as there are only two invocations
of this function from arch/s390/include/asm/archrandom.h and both
are not exposed to userland.
Reported-by: Sven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Harald Freudenberger <freude@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/s390/crypto/arch_random.c | 4 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/s390/crypto/arch_random.c b/arch/s390/crypto/arch_random.c index 7b947728d57e..56007c763902 100644 --- a/arch/s390/crypto/arch_random.c +++ b/arch/s390/crypto/arch_random.c @@ -54,6 +54,10 @@ static DECLARE_DELAYED_WORK(arch_rng_work, arch_rng_refill_buffer); bool s390_arch_random_generate(u8 *buf, unsigned int nbytes) { + /* max hunk is ARCH_RNG_BUF_SIZE */ + if (nbytes > ARCH_RNG_BUF_SIZE) + return false; + /* lock rng buffer */ if (!spin_trylock(&arch_rng_lock)) return false; |